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Second City co-owner and chief executive Andrew Alexander attributes this to the intelligence expected of cast members: "Respect your audience. Keep the bar as high as you can. Don't talk down to your audience, and don't go for the obvious joke." The troupe - whose early members included...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Second City | 12/16/2009 | See Source »

The bizarre early history of planned weight loss makes recent fad diets seem enlightened by comparison. The Atkins diet, a modern-day Banting plan that has eaters eschew carbs in favor of protein-rich meals, was written in 1972 and became in later years a weight-loss plan favored by...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Fad Diets | 12/15/2009 | See Source »

With Sarkozy now President - he has made fighting illegal immigration one of his main priorities - the destruction of the Jungle was designed to send a forceful message that France's humanitarian sympathy had run out. That message seems to have little impact on the people who view Calais as a...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: In Calais, Illegal Migrants Driven Underground | 12/15/2009 | See Source »

What's been good for Centcom has also been good for the high-tech U.S. arms industry. Despite the global recession, Arab states have signed huge deals for U.S. military hardware, whose sophistication has been on full display in two long wars in the neighborhood. Petraeus said countries in the...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Rattled by Iran, Arab Regimes Draw Closer | 12/15/2009 | See Source »

Petraeus, in language more blunt than that typically used by Obama Administration officials, lashed out that Iran, "which had become a theocracy, has become a thugocracy because of the hijacked elections and people's response to them." He said Arab hostility toward Iran had helped win support for U.S. strategy...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Rattled by Iran, Arab Regimes Draw Closer | 12/15/2009 | See Source »

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