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...legislators deal with other pressing issues like the budget and trade deficits. The White House has so far postponed taking a stand on it. Reporters inquired about the President's attitude toward the plan last week, when he appeared for a holiday photo session with a 55-Ib. gobbler named Wilfred. Quipped Reagan: "The only questions I will take today are about the turkey...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Game New Plan On Taxes | 6/21/2005 | See Source »

...rookie in competitive eating looks more like a model for the Atkins diet than someone who set a world record by devouring 157 chicken wings in just 32 min. But Sonya Thomas, 36, shown at right celebrating that record, wants to bolster her status as the world's speediest gobbler at several of the 70 contests the International Federation of Competitive Eating has scheduled for 2004. Thomas, who holds titles for downing tacos (43 in 11 min.) and eggs (65 in 7 min.), hopes to pad the $20,000 she's won this year. The rival stars below will have...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Marriage Of Gluttony And Sport | 4/26/2004 | See Source »

...controls on density and development—local Not In My Backyard (NIMBY) politics—pushed by Carlson and his ilk that may be the main offender in pushing housing prices to extraordinary levels. Despite Carlson’s cries against the University as a greedy, corporate land-gobbler, there is actually one group that stands to lose more as a result of the NIMBY stance than Harvard. Young families looking for housing in the Boston area are in an extraordinary squeeze as more and more city governments choose to restrict the level and extent of development across...

Author: By Alex B. Turnbull, | Title: Valuing the Community | 11/5/2003 | See Source »

...Nixon the pill-gobbler, who during the White House years consumed Dilantin like M & M's. The drug, an anti-convulsant usually prescribed to forestall petit-mal epileptic seizures, was also supposed to be an anti-irritant and mood stabilizer. Summers says Nixon took it in order to relieve the stresses of his job and, well, of being such an odious thing as Richard Nixon...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Hack Alert! New Nixon Bio Is a Hatchet Job | 8/30/2000 | See Source »

Someone from ABC apparently heard "Jingle Bells" in the jingle of coins at a video arcade recently. And the result means big bucks for the people who gave video-gobbler Pac-Man his own Saturday morning cartoon. Based on this show's success as the highest-rated children's show on television, the agents behind Pac-Man's TV career now bring us "Christmas Comes to Pac Land Presumably, Ms. Pac-Man will guest star in the Dec. 16 special, with Marty Engels as the voice of the electronic big-mouth...

Author: By Gilbert Fuchsberg, | Title: Rudolph, E. T., and Johnny Cash | 12/8/1982 | See Source »

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