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...wartime State of the Union Address, bad news is part of the formula, and George W. Bush's opening line was, like every other line of his nearly 60-minute address, drowned in a wave of applause from the crowd in the House of Representatives Tuesday night. And then Bush, always master of his message, got right down to the mission - reminding America and its politicians that nearly five months later, it is still a nation under attack. That the country may have won the first battle but the war - and the threat - is far from over...
...heavier music and electronic music and try to make it into one sound.' It was pretty crude when we started." So crude that every major label took a pass. Things only got worse when Limp Bizkit, Korn and other fusion groups hit the charts with a similar musical formula. "We thought we had a new idea and, to our dismay, all these groups started breaking," recalls Delson. "We were almost, like, 'We've been beaten to the punch...
Sport is so unfair. it is the lot of some very talented athletes to emerge just when an exceptional individual dominates their sport. In any other era two-time Formula One World Champion Mika Hakkinen would be fêted as a brilliant driver, but he happens to be around at the same time as Michael Schumacher. Trinidadian sprinter Ato Boldon would likely have won more than a single World title had it not been for a certain Maurice Greene...
...That's because the types of fat found in nuts--monounsaturated and polyunsaturated--are the good fats. When eaten instead of junk food high in saturated fats (like potato chips and doughnuts), nuts lower blood levels of triglycerides and LDL (bad) cholesterol while raising HDL (good) cholesterol--a perfect formula for preventing heart disease. Many nuts, such as pecans and walnuts, also contain a phytochemical called ellagic acid. In preliminary laboratory studies, ellagic acid seemed to trigger a process known as apoptosis, in which cancer cells kill themselves. Nuts provide another benefit: they contain vitamin E, a potent antioxidant that...
Having chosen men, women, couples and groups of the year, TIME in 1982 named a machine, the computer. (It would take similar liberties with the formula in 1988, hailing the endangered Earth as Planet of the Year.) The computer had long been a fixture in modern life, but the advent of the personal computer made the "desktop revolution" accessible to millions. TIME's story predicted that home computers would someday be as commonplace as TV sets or dishwashers. Twenty years later, with 60% of the U.S. wired, that is well on the way to coming true. The story also foresaw...