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Alarmed by the exotic trend, the International Skating Union felt moved to issue Communication No. 1115, "following many complaints," telling skaters to cut out "undignified poses/positions" such as sustained upside-down splits. The problem for ice dancers has always been that they are not allowed to lift their partners above...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Get Ready for Dirty Dancing | 2/4/2002 | See Source »

What Enron wanted most was to be left alone, free of both regulation and scrutiny as it transformed itself from a dowdy natural-gas-pipeline company into a freewheeling energy-and-communications giant. In the early 1990s Enron became a new kind of business, selling not just energy but exotic...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: What $6 Million Can Buy | 1/28/2002 | See Source »

Shangri-la. The very name is an incantation that evokes images of a mythical mountain paradise where peace reigns and life approaches perfection. Drawn from the pages of James Hilton's 1933 classic, Lost Horizon, Shangri-la has become synonymous with exotic escapism, a connotation not lost on the tourist...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Peddling Paradise in Sichuan and Yunnan | 1/28/2002 | See Source »

Once scientists cloned run-of-the-mill livestock like Dolly the sheep, could exotic endangered species have been far behind? Meet Noah the gaur, the first endangered clone. The gaur is a species of wild ox that is fast disappearing from its native India and Burma. Noah started out as...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Our A To Z Guide To Advances In Medicine | 1/21/2002 | See Source »

Bourdain's mission is to show the cool, un-Martha side of the culinary world. And after nearly two years of ranting about the Food Network's glossy simplification of cooking through such celebrity chefs as Emeril Lagasse and Bobby Flay, Bourdain will join them. Starting Jan. 8, at 10...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Renegade Gourmet | 12/24/2001 | See Source »

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