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...Base in the center of Okinawa, the streets turn into a bacchanalian fest of hard drinking, loud music and raucous, sweaty dancing. American servicemen are on the prowl for liquor and a good time. The local girls, Okinawans and Japanese, come out too, looking for some fun with the buff, dollar-rich and female-deprived American boys. Tattooed guys in muscle shirts and cargo pants rub against women in midriff-baring Tshirts and tight jeans, and as the crowd spills from bars onto sidewalks, the night shifts into hormonal overdrive. "Hey, we're 19-year-old guys, we're away...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Island Fever | 7/9/2001 | See Source »

...apparent World War II buff recommends "A Mind in Prison: The Memoir of a Son and Soldier of the Third Reich" by Bruno Manz, "Wolfsangel : A German City on Trial 1945-48" by August J. Nigro and "In the Skies of Europe : Air Forces Allied to the Luftwaffe 1939-1945" by Hans Werner Neulen...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Shine Up Your Library Card | 6/15/2001 | See Source »

Michael Carneal, 17 --14 when crime committed --Tried as an adult in Kentucky --Killed three students, wounded five --Serving 25 to life, will be re- sentenced when he turns 18 LIFE NOW Shares a room with nine others. A computer buff, he cannot have e-mail...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Life On The Inside | 5/28/2001 | See Source »

...Artemis is repellent in almost every regard. This mastermind is the know-it-all scion of a criminal and fabulously rich Irish family, lately fallen on hard times after the mysterious disappearance of Artemis' father. So the son and his burly henchman Butler embark on a quest to buff up his inheritance by stealing gold from the fairies, who live beneath the earth, having been driven there by the proliferation of humans, or "Mud People...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: A Case Of Fowl Play | 4/30/2001 | See Source »

...home yoga, the video-store racks groan with hot, moving tapes. The Living Yoga series of instructional videos taught by Yee and Patricia Walden occupies five of the top eight slots on Amazon's VHS best-seller list. "Vogue and Self are putting out the message of yoginis as buff and perfect," says Walden. "If you start doing yoga for those reasons, fine. Most people get beyond that and see that it's much, much more." By embodying the grace and strength of their system, Yee and Walden are its most charismatic proselytizers--new luminaries in the yoga firmament...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Power of Yoga | 4/23/2001 | See Source »

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