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...show veteran is confident that he will recognize the signs of burnout if and when they show up. "I hope I never lose my curiosity," he says. "I hope I don't start interviewing myself." Knowing King, even that might be worth tuning in. --By Richard Zoglin. Reported by Carol Honsa/Washington
Then, in sophomore year, Carol Bentley, a wet-eyed brunette from Toledo, Ohio, entered Emma Willard and became my best friend. I remember first seeing her as I was stepping out of the dorm shower. She was naked and took my breath away. I had never seen a body like hers: fully developed breasts that stood straight out over a tiny waist, and narrow hips with long, chiseled legs. I felt certain right then that she would end up running the world and that if I hung around long enough, some of her power would rub off on me. Already...
Perfect body notwithstanding, Carol joined me in having major body-image issues. It was she who introduced me to bingeing and purging, what we now know as bulimia. She said the idea came to her in a class on the history of the Roman Empire. She read that the Romans would gorge themselves on food during orgiastic feasts and then put their fingers down their throats to make themselves throw it all back up and start over again. The idea of being able to eat the most fattening foods and never having to pay the consequences was very appealing...
...faster than any other segment of the skin-care market, according to Euromonitor, a market researcher, hitting $9.9 billion last year. More than 2 million Americans got Botox injections and about 1.6 million got chemical peels or microdermabrasions in 2003 (the most recent year for which stats exist). Says Carol Hamilton, president of L'Oréal Paris: "Now you have a whole generation who basically believes that they never have to see a wrinkle. This is a powerful movement in the beauty industry...
...plight of Malawi has been rightly described by Carol Bellamy, head of UNICEF, as the perfect storm of human deprivation, one that brings together climatic disaster, impoverishment, the AIDS pandemic and the long-standing burdens of malaria, schistosomiasis and other diseases. In the face of this horrific maelstrom, the world community has so far displayed a fair bit of hand-wringing and even some high-minded rhetoric, but precious little action. It is no good to lecture the dying that they should have done better with their lot in life. Rather it is our task to help them onto...