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EXERCISE What's a couch potato to think? First, researchers told us that even a 30-minute walk in the park a few times a week was enough to get the bulk of the cardiovascular benefit of exercise. Then other studies argued that intense activity was much better. Now the government has weighed in with new guidelines that call for an hour of exercise daily--double the previous recommendation. It's enough to make you throw up your hands and look for the TV remote. Don't. The message may be mixed, but it's really very simple: doing anything...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: 2003: Your A to Z Guide to the Year in Medicine | 1/20/2003 | See Source »

...Wilson, "where we think we have every new disorder." Evidence for this, he says, can be found in the fact that disorders tend to vary over different cultures and over time. In Freud's day, hysteria was all the rage--a problem experienced mostly by women, who formed the bulk of Freud's clientele. Nowadays this diagnosis is rare. A doctor who ventures it risks getting slapped...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Let's Not Overanalyze This | 1/20/2003 | See Source »

...their federal structure and ambivalence toward national feeling, have always been committed - in principle, if not always in practice - to a strong European Commission. The French have been more keen to preserve national prerogatives, even to the point of sometimes treating the E.U. as a coat of mail to bulk up for national battle. As they approached this week's gala commemoration at Versailles of the 40th anniversary of the Elysée Treaty, which sealed formal amity between hereditary foes, Chirac and Schröder decided, as Chirac put it, "that Germany and France would each take one step...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Who's in Charge Here, Anyway? | 1/19/2003 | See Source »

...tailored containment," under which U.S. naval ships would block North Korean missile exports--depriving the regime of one of its only sources of income--and the U.N. would impose economic sanctions against North Korea. Winning support for the idea will require high-level arm twisting. China, which supplies the bulk of North Korea's oil, is wary of exacerbating the privations that have already sent thousands of North Korean refugees across the border. U.S. officials think, however, that China's leaders can be swayed to squeeze North Korea, given Beijing's concern that if Pyongyang definitively crosses the nuclear threshold...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: How Dangerous Is North Korea? | 1/13/2003 | See Source »

CORREA: Renewable energy is something we should talk about carefully. There is a perception that renewables in a large industrial economy could make up the bulk of our power. But we are just a little too far away from the sun. Whether you're talking about biomass, photovoltaics, or wind moving because the sun heats the earth differentially, it all comes from the sun. If you calculate how many watts per meter the sun puts to the earth and ask whether that is enough to run our very high energy consumption--this is a question...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Gang Green | 1/13/2003 | See Source »

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