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...across Route Barracuda waving sad little white flags. As a family shuffles past, a Green Beret weapons sergeant bellows for them to be stopped. "Who's that red-headed guy?" he asks. The men are sifted out, five identified as suspicious. Flashes of defiance and anger raise suspicions. "Hey, flex-cuff 'em," orders a Green Beret. Chemical swabs read positive for explosives on two of the men. Masked informants identify three--all brothers--as snipers, the other two as a rocket-propelled-grenade team. Across the battlefield, insurgents attempting to slip out of Sarai mix with civilians. Five dressed...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Chasing the Ghosts | 9/18/2005 | See Source »

...mondo free-lance gig from a muscle-magazine publisher. According to documents filed with the SEC, just days before taking office in 2003, Schwarzenegger signed a five-year consulting deal, worth at least $1 million annually, with a subsidiary of American Media Inc., publisher of Muscle & Fitness and Flex. His pay was pegged in part to ad revenues, and last September the Governor vetoed a bill that would have imposed regulations on high school athletes' use of performance-enhancing supplements, which advertise heavily in the magazines...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: When A Governor Shouldn't Moonlight | 7/19/2005 | See Source »

...carved out of the lower back so that it becomes virtually animate, bending like two independent pieces. "One day I took an X-Acto knife on one of our little models," Stumpf recalls, "and I just cut that slip in there. I knew right away it would work." Flex and absolute structural integrity without gimmicks: the chair is its material and structure. In addition, the designers engineered a novel tilt mechanism. Because the pivot is forward, at a point behind the knees, leaning backward in an Equa does not lift one's feet off the floor inexorably...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Design: Looking Good Is Not Enough | 6/21/2005 | See Source »

...Weight lift, do calisthenics or any sport that makes you flex muscles repetitively...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: From Head to Toe | 5/29/2005 | See Source »

Even fitness guru Kathy Smith has set aside her free weights to undulate in a new DVD, Flex Appeal: A Belly Dance Workout. Says Smith: "My hope was to bring belly dancing to a person who would be too intimidated to take a class. I saw there was a need for something a little different for the mainstream audience...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Body & Mind: Belly-Dance Boom | 3/27/2005 | See Source »

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