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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...fact, "swallowing the tongue is an urban legend," says Greg Stockton, a health and safety expert at the Red Cross. Instead, remove hard objects from around the person and cushion the head. Sometimes the tongue will block the airway. In that case, tilt the head back, lift the chin and turn the person on his or her side. And as with all cases of unconsciousness, call...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Health: First-Aid Myths | 8/11/2003 | See Source »

...afternoon in the early '70s, Katharine Hepburn and two friends entered a loge box in the London theater where Harold Pinter's Old Times was playing. Hepburn soon went prone on the floor of the box to get a closer view of the play--her chin in her cupped hands, her eyes rapt as a schoolgirl's on Christmas morning. That day the laser beam of Hepburn's gaze outshone the spotlights and, nearly, the actors onstage. Did people notice her? Oh, yes: Hepburn was the show, and she knew it. Not for nothing was her autobiography titled...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: What a Beaut!: KATHARINE HEPBURN (1907-2003) | 7/14/2003 | See Source »

...different vein altogether, San Diego State University Professor of Poetry Marilyn Chin said she is looking forward to using the resources of Harvard’s Yenching Library as she works “trying to meld the two different types of love poems and...bridging East and West and developing a comprehensive aesthetic...

Author: By Laura L. Krug, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Radcliffe Chooses ’03-’04 Scholars | 7/11/2003 | See Source »

...decided to write love poems as an oblique way of dealing with the 20th century crisis,” Chin said. “Everybody’s writing war poems. I think we’re forgetting how to feel and I think poetry is the genre that’s really closest to our hearts and I think I want to use it to tell a different story from the war story...

Author: By Laura L. Krug, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Radcliffe Chooses ’03-’04 Scholars | 7/11/2003 | See Source »

What people really want shoved up them, the makeover TV genre says, is a new identity. But people also need to believe that this glamorous new self was really inside them all along. Whether these shows remake your house, your wardrobe or your chin, they cater to the same fantasy: that if someone with a gifted eye took the time, that person would see your beauty and uniqueness, would probe past the lie of your drab exterior and bring the shimmering true you to the surface. We used to call that kind of penetrating gaze the look of love. Today...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Trading Faces | 7/7/2003 | See Source »

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