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Zipcar, which is challenging the traditional concept of a car rental company with its short-term, low-price rentals, is particularly interested in recruiting student members, said Malloy...

Author: By Evan H. Jacobs, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Cambridge Zipcar Rentals Take Off | 10/14/2004 | See Source »

Some nutritionists believe the freshman-15 concept is overblown. University of Southern California's Patrice Barber runs a workshop entitled Freshman 15--Don't Believe the Hype, in which students are taught not to succumb to the feelings of insecurity that may accompany weight gain. As for Ashil Ann, she now believes gaining a few pounds is O.K. "Although I'm returning to my ideal weight, I don't mind the extra pounds," Ann says. "I actually feel more confident with my new body...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Smart Eating | 10/11/2004 | See Source »

...explains that the “X” also alludes to The Autobiography of Malcolm X, Generation X, the film American History X and the concept of intersection...

Author: By Marie E. Burks, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Same Race, Different Experiences | 10/8/2004 | See Source »

...that are believed to be manifestations of its journey. Ngalyod's appetite is thought to have forged the local landforms, and one gets a sense of this in Marralwanga's Ngalyod and Yawkyawk, 1983, in which the two creatures consume each other. Mawurndjul's brother Jimmy Njiminjuma pushed the concept even further in his large-scale serpents from the mid '80s, which wrestle with the very edges of the frame. But no one inhabits Ngalyod better than Mawurndjul, whose increasingly abstract depictions give an insider view of the supreme being. "Where I live," he has said, "a Ngalyod lives under...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Rock Spirits | 10/7/2004 | See Source »

...about tweening. What is it? Tweening is the marketing of sexually revealing clothing to kids, along with teen music, makeup to girls, more violent toys to younger boys and so forth. A tween is what years ago used to be called a preteen. Some marketers have even stretched the concept of tween down to 6-year-olds...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CONVERSATION: Junk Culture | 10/4/2004 | See Source »

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