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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...people ate; and The Body Code, by Jay Cooper, divides dieters into warriors, nurturers, communicators and visionaries. Nurturers, in addition to eating lots of fruits and vegetables, no doubt do most of the cooking. More popular is Gwen Shamblin's The Weigh Down Diet, which advises using spirituality to avoid overeating and has sold more than 1.2 million copies to overweight Christians--a kind of What Would Jesus Eat? plan...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Low-Carb Diet Craze | 11/1/1999 | See Source »

...their supposed sin than to saving them from physical assaults. A typical sampling of Falwell's rhetoric is the July edition of his National Liberty Journal, in which he wrote that we cannot "blame" genetics for "adultery, homosexuality, dishonesty and other character flaws." Most famously, Falwell urged parents to avoid the British children's program "Teletubbies" because one character, Tinky-Winky, is purple and has an inverted triangle on his head which made him a subversive "gay role model...

Author: By Adam A. Sofen, | Title: The Lessons of Lynchburg | 10/29/1999 | See Source »

...fund-raiser he may show up," candidate Steve Forbes said cattily of the absence of Governor George W. Bush from Thursday night's Republican candidates' town meeting in New Hampshire. But then, as Senator Orrin Hatch quickly jabbed, Forbes is sufficiently endowed by his family fortune to avoid the trawling for millions among the special interests. Governor Bush's mammoth war chest provided the only hint of combativeness in a field of candidates, most of whom already look like also-rans, but with "Dubya" out of range, they were firing...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GOP Candidates Beat About the Bush | 10/29/1999 | See Source »

...taken as a freshman will remain your ID picture throughout your time at Harvard. ID and Data Services (340 Holyoke Center, 9 a.m. to 4:45 p.m. Monday to Friday, 495-3322) will take a new picture for you free of charge. You're always welcome but to avoid waiting in line, it's best not to come in during registration season...

Author: By David M. Rosenblatt, | Title: Fifteen Minutes: The ID Deconstructed | 10/28/1999 | See Source »

...like living with each other, but neither side is quite ready to face up to the dramatic consequences of that fact. Talks on Montenegro?s proposals to substantially increase its autonomy failed to produce any agreement Tuesday, but both sides pledged to keep talking in order to avoid plunging the region into a new war. Despite the Montenegrins? threat to secede from Yugoslavia if they?re not granted substantial independence from Belgrade, neither side is ready for such a confrontation. "It?s like an unhappy marriage in which the husband and wife are being kind to each other because they...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Montenegro's Loveless Marriage Survives | 10/27/1999 | See Source »

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