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...Then a doozy of a finger-wagging, don't-get-up-in-my-business-girlfriend catfight between Alicia and Kimmi, with cute little stretcher-doll Elisabeth staring off into the distance. And we know who's gonna win that one. Alicia may be the bitterest personal trainer this side of Don Rickles (there was an exercise tape that never took off), but she's got a reliable snipe-session girlfriend in Jeff and the tribe can still wash clothes on her stomach. And in Kucha's post-pig-hunt season of plenty, Kimmi's main contribution - not eating...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Kimmi Chopped — and What About That Chopper? | 2/22/2001 | See Source »

...Which would you rather do: A) Have somebody prick your finger for a drop of blood B) Diet constantly in a never-ending quest to lose weight C) Spend your entire life dealing with food urges and worrying about weight-related health problems...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Fated to Be Fat? | 2/20/2001 | See Source »

...done as much as anyone to burnish the image of the gentleman gangster. He has had 21 books published, mostly thinly disguised autobiographical screeds with rosy depictions of gang life. Of course, the books are pure pulp?a sample chapter heading from one 382-page tome: "Oh, Finger Cutting! Such a Bittersweet Glory"?but readers lap them up. His Son of the Fire sold 200,000 copies. Cho chopped off his own pinkie in public in 1974 after an ethnic Korean gunman from Japan shot the wife of dictator Park Chung Hee. Called danji (finger chopping) the gesture was immortalized...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Way of the Fists | 2/19/2001 | See Source »

Very few of the people in Washington with their finger on the panic button have ever seen the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge. (Murkowski is planning to lead a Senate delegation here when the weather warms up.) For those who do travel to Alaska's far north, the experience stretches the imagination. To visit a new drilling station in Prudhoe, one that extends only a few acres on the surface but can access 75 square miles underground, or fly over a convoy of trucks spraying water on the tundra to form ice roads strong enough to bear the weight of mobile...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Last Wild Place: War Over Arctic Oil | 2/19/2001 | See Source »

...dramatic first witness in the trial of four alleged minions of bin Laden's accused of conspiring to bomb two U.S. embassies in East Africa in 1998, setting off twin blasts that killed 224 people, 12 of them Americans. Al-Fadl is not the only star witness expected to finger the Saudi-born financier, whom Washington calls "the most immediate and serious [terrorist] threat" to U.S. security today, for his nonstop terror attempts. Soon to come is Ali Mohamed, another Jihadist turned songbird seeking security in U.S. hands because he can tie bin Laden and several of his top lieutenants...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Traitor's Tale | 2/19/2001 | See Source »

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