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Three decades after my parents left it, I stand in my H-44 common room. There’s a huge mattress on the floor that my roommates Grainne and Angela found, somewhere, and a gray three-part couch we inherited from Grainne’s sister. A bag of candy in the corner from my birthday pinata sits next to tubes of nontoxic tempera paint and Angela’s swathes of brightly-colored cloth. I could tell you the story of each of these items. When I walk through Harvard Yard, past Massachusetts Hall, I remember standing outside...
Like many other couch potatoes who take their quality TV time seriously, I hailed the arrival of TiVo as a liberator. Back in the dark ages of TV watching - about four years ago - there were two ways to catch your favorite shows. You could run your life on the networks' schedule, or you could enter VCR-programming hell. Then came TiVo, a miraculous device that remembered what I liked and let me watch it whenever I wanted. But, as I soon learned, TiVo could be tyrannical...
This week Joe Klein puts the nine announced Democratic candidates for President on the couch and offers a prescription for fixing the party's chronic election woes. From his days covering politics for Rolling Stone, New York, Newsweek and the New Yorker to his best-selling work of fiction--as Anonymous, he wrote Primary Colors, the scaldingly funny roman a clef about Bill Clinton--Joe has emerged as one of America's premier political journalists. I'm thrilled to have him at TIME, even if he occasionally questions the wisdom of hitting the road for another round of motel rooms...
...without commenting." Thus Nelly's Hot in Herre gets retitled Trash Day (We're guessing: "There's so much trash in here"), while the Backstreet Boys' I Want It That Way is reworked as eBay. (Two birds, one stone.) But the main event is the eagerly awaited Eminem spoof, Couch Potato. "I've wanted to do Eminem for a long time because he's the closest thing we have to a superstar," says Yankovic. "But a lot of his songs are sort of tongue in cheek already. Lose Yourself was so serious that it was perfectly ripe...
...keep a man well," said Hippocrates in 400 B.C. "He must also take exercise") and debunking popular claims (e.g., endorphins and running highs are overrated, she says). Kolata concludes that exercise is more often a marker of health than its cause. But this energetic book will propel many a couch potato into the gym. --By Andrea Sachs