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...CHARLES BARKLEY gave himself the gift of corpulence. "I'm 37," says Barkley. "I've worked out every day since I was nine. So I gave myself six months off from being in shape." By eating whatever he wanted, playing golf every day and drinking Grey Goose vodka with cranberry juice every night, Barkley added 70 lbs. to his frame. By Jan. 1 he had hit 337 lbs. Now, in his new gig as a TNT studio analyst, he's submitting himself to humiliating weekly weigh-ins in a bid to get back in shape. "I don't drink anymore...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: Feb. 5, 2001 | 2/5/2001 | See Source »

...Three regimes: Theodore Medad Pomeroy's stint as Speaker of the U.S. House (one day) plus the combined reigns of English Queen Jane Grey (nine days) and Portugal's Dom Luis III (about 20 minutes...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Decide Already! Mayflies Are Dying in Droves | 12/4/2000 | See Source »

...came home to Thanksgiving this year to find a new dog. While the outward appearance of Sadie was the same as it had always been (with maybe a few more grey hairs), her outward behavior was markedly different. This year, instead of continually and incessantly begging for and attempting to steal food, Sadie walked around in a fog, her tail lazily wagging, with what I would swear was a stupid grin on her face. When I asked my parents about this strange, albeit more manageable behavior, they confided that they had placed our family dog on anti-anxiety medication...

Author: By B.j. Greenleaf, | Title: Canine Normalcy in 2000 | 11/28/2000 | See Source »

Cambridge resident William C. Jones, 80, with his trademark tweed hat, grey jacket and well-chiseled chin, has been roaming the chambers of City Hall for the last four decades, attending City Council meetings as if it was a weekly religious duty...

Author: By Imtiyaz H. Delawala, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: The Conscience of City Council: Bob Jones | 11/22/2000 | See Source »

...this Seuss all of a sudden? For the answer, go to the top of the mountain, to the petite, 79-year-old blond, blue-eyed widow. When she met Ted Geisel in the mid-1960s, she was still married to physician Grey Dimond, with whom she had two daughters. After her divorce, and after Ted's first wife Helen committed suicide in 1967, Audrey and Ted were married. Until the end of his life, Audrey devoted herself to his care. "The idea was to keep the body there so it could take that mind as far as it wanted...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Seuss On The Loose | 11/20/2000 | See Source »

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