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...contests the International Federation of Competitive Eating has scheduled for 2004. Thomas, who holds titles for downing tacos (43 in 11 min.) and eggs (65 in 7 min.), hopes to pad the $20,000 she's won this year. The rival stars below will have to chew fast to beat her. --By Jeremy Caplan...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Marriage Of Gluttony And Sport | 4/26/2004 | See Source »

...rationalist system of social thought is the most elaborate and methodical in the contemporary world, which is why he is often cited as a sage by people who would rather chew glass than read his lumbering prose. But it is the awesome yet careful architecture of Jurgen Habermas' lifetime of scholarship that undergirds his reputation as an independent commentator on most of the ills of the contemporary world. Reason, for this 74-year-old German philosopher-sociologist, is practical, and reason is rooted in the ability to communicate clearly with one another. When people of different cultures come together...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Jurgen Habermas | 4/26/2004 | See Source »

...that suggest she is the actress of her generation most likely to inherit the kind of powerhouse roles associated with Close and [Jane] Fonda in their 30s and 40s." Those qualities, it turns out, transfer easily onto the stage, making Stiles blaze with hate and pain. She and Eckhart chew into Mamet's fiendishly difficult staccato half-lines with evident relish. Their slow-burning antagonism ignites in the devastating finale. As Stiles gives full vent to her talent for malice, you too feel compelled to scream at Eckhart...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Julia's West End Workout | 4/25/2004 | See Source »

South African cuisine is as much a mix of influences and flavors as the country's demographic profile. Begin your culinary tour with the food of the Dutch settlers, who perfected the art of preserving beef during their long trek into the veld. Locals still love to chew on biltong (jerky) or dry wors (preserved sausage), often made from game animals such as kudu or ostrich. And no braai (barbecue) would be complete without generous coils of spicy boerewors (farmer's sausages). The importation of indentured servants from Indonesia and Malaysia in the 17th century led to the development...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Fusion of Flavors | 4/11/2004 | See Source »

...against the occupation and the building of the wall there, and as a student, taking the opinion of academic freedom seemed like a good approach,” Chew said...

Author: By Katharine A. Kaplan, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Petition Calls for Academic Freedom | 3/23/2004 | See Source »

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