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...most important tasks of democracy are done by everyone. What you do is as important as anything government does. I ask you to seek a common good beyond your comfort; to defend needed reforms against easy attacks; to serve your nation, beginning with your neighbor...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Bush's Opening High Note | 1/20/2001 | See Source »

...avoiding obesity. Why else could two otherwise healthy people eat identical foods, keep identically active and still see the numbers on the scale move in opposite directions? For years much of this has been explained with hand-waving references to body types and metabolism--broadly accurate, but cold comfort to the estimated 61% of Americans who are overweight or obese and want to have their weight controlled, not merely explained...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Hunt For Cures: Obesity | 1/15/2001 | See Source »

...icons on templates forged in Hollywood, to imagine Colin Powell as some kind of movie hero. Just like those we love best on the big screen, he's handsome, commanding, possessed of a sonorous voice and a compelling story - all of which combine to stir feelings of admiration, comfort and well-being. His triumphs satisfy some of our unspoken emotional desires...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Will America Still Love Colin Powell? | 1/10/2001 | See Source »

...stories. The unlikely, implacable brilliance of Louis Armstrong, a genius raised on the streets of New Orleans whose mother hooked to survive. The resilience of Duke Ellington, born into comparative comfort, who would rise above race and dwell, as he liked to say, "beyond category," in a world of transcendent music. The bright, hard radiance of Bix Beiderbecke, dead too soon, and the huge spiritual yearning of John Coltrane, who died believing in the salvation his music could bring. Parker, the greatest and most lyrical and most forbidding pioneer of bop--a word he disliked--who exerted an irresistible force...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Television: Fascinating Rhythms | 1/8/2001 | See Source »

...Alex Comfort 80 This British physician wrote the tasty...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: LIFE Remembers | 12/31/2000 | See Source »

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