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...jungle canopy of Peru? There are an estimated 420,000 Christian missionaries worldwide, but most Americans cannot fathom the choices made by Veronica (Roni) Bowers--a woman who raised her children on a houseboat on the Amazon and preached the gospel to people who have never seen a light bulb. Behind the battery of urgent questions about the tragic downing of the missionary plane are quieter ones about the people who died...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Mission Interrupted | 5/7/2001 | See Source »

...excitement over senior fitness bodes best, of course, for seniors themselves, especially for those 70 and older. According to physiologists, strength and flexibility can mean the difference between independently handling everyday activities like changing a light bulb and sitting on the sofa, scared. "There is no pharmacological intervention that can restore people to youthful levels like a well-designed fitness program," says William Evans, professor of geriatrics at the University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences. "Seniors have lost the most muscle strength and fitness, and that's largely because of inactivity. With exercise, you can restore a 70-year...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Burning Off The Years | 4/23/2001 | See Source »

...take a while for the enlightenment bulb to switch on--for you to get the truth of the yoga maxim that what you can do is what you should do. But when it happens, it's an epiphany, like suddenly knowing, in your bones and your dreams, the foreign language you've been studying for months. In yoga, this is your mind-body language...

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

...Omen Clowns Internationalis encouraging its bulb-nosed members to consider "custard pie insurance" to guard against humorless, litigious audiences...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Starting Time | 4/16/2001 | See Source »

...take a while for the enlightenment bulb to switch on - for you to get the truth of the yoga maxim that what you can do is what you should do. But when it happens, it's an epiphany, like suddenly knowing, in your bones and your dreams, the foreign language you've been studying for months. In yoga, this is your mind-body language...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Power Of Yoga | 4/15/2001 | See Source »

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