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...Healthy and easily-digestible? Try putting yourself in my stomach's position. For the first nine hours of the day, you are fed a fat-filled set of deposits which might include clam chowder, a steak bomb, chicken wings, french fries, turkey meatloaf, broccoli souffle, Rice Krispies treats and ice cream. Then, for the next eight hours, you are fed several bananas and lots of apples: green apples, red apples and yellow apples, spotted and solid apples, Red Delicious and Macintosh. Sometimes you are forced to digest six apples in an evening. You would revolt...

Author: By Geoffrey C. Upton, | Title: Charge of the Night Brigade | 11/23/1996 | See Source »

Lori is in the kitchen cooking dinner: chicken baked in mushroom soup and soy sauce, and fresh broccoli. At all costs, she will find a way for her little family to eat meals together, to glue their life in place. She has a wide-open face, with eager eyes, a tangy huskiness in her voice and a fast, shy smile. She is 35, but for as far back as she can remember, people have called...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: DESPERATELY SEEKING LORI | 10/14/1996 | See Source »

...think evolution (or devolution, for that matter), may be the answer. It is better in the real world to concentrate only for a very short time on one thing. If the president starts to concentrate on the lack of broccoli in the American diet, he or she may have problems dealing with the rest of the world as well as the country, although broccoli farmers may be pleased. Even Jeopardy rewards the contestants who know one word questions about every eclectic topic...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Farewell to the Attention Span | 10/7/1996 | See Source »

DIED. ALBERT BROCCOLI, 87, producer of the James Bond film series; in Beverly Hills, California. From Dr. No to Goldeneye, Broccoli and his successors parlayed the 007 mix of adventure, sex and gadgetry into one of pop culture's biggest hits...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones Jul. 8, 1996 | 7/8/1996 | See Source »

...cancel the rally when he needs his sleep, to can the speechwriter who just won't cut it, to worry about who's in charge, to say the things no one else will when she tells her old man to clean up his language (Bess Truman), eat his broccoli (Barbara Bush), upgrade his jogging shorts (Hillary Clinton) or remind him with a Post-It note on the bathroom mirror to "Smile" (Elizabeth Dole). And to do it all with the curtains open and the lights...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: JUST HEARTBEATS AWAY | 7/1/1996 | See Source »

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