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Payne—an inch taller and about 25 lbs. lighter than Garcia—benches 380 lbs., but ran sprints for his high school track team. Their versatility almost seems unfair...

Author: By Lande A. Spottswood, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Are You Ready For a Pass Rush? | 9/16/2003 | See Source »

...movie, Zatoichi, a don't-call-it-a-remake of one of the country's longest-running and best-loved film series, and which opened last Saturday in Japan, Kitano is facing the biggest challenge of his moviemaking life: stepping into the shoes of an actor who is every inch the celluloid icon that Kitano is. Imagine replacing Sean Connery if he'd been in every Bond film, and you have some idea of what faces Kitano in taking on the mantle of the late Shintaro Katsu, the actor who played Zatoichi, the blind swordsman, from...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Striking A New Beat | 9/8/2003 | See Source »

...year ago. BMW added 2,100 jobs at German factories to meet an expected increase in production. And an August opinion poll by NFO Infratest showed that Germans were optimistic about the future of the economy for the first time since last September. Consumption is also beginning to inch up. GfK, a firm that tracks consumer trends, said its index of consumption rose from 4.2 in July to 4.5 in August, signalling that Germans are expected to spend more. "The digital sector is booming," says Marcus Neuhaus, manager of a ProMarkt electronics and appliance chain store on Berlin's trendy...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Is Germany Finally Bouncing Back? | 8/31/2003 | See Source »

...about a program called MEND (mind, exercise, nutrition, diet), started by Paul Sacher, a dietitian at London's Great Ormond Street Hospital for Children. Hannah enrolled last September, and by the time the program ended 10 weeks later, she had shed nearly 5 lbs. and grown more than an inch. That wasn't all. Once a shy, clingy child, Hannah, who is now 4 ft. 11 in. tall and weighs 84 lbs., brims with confidence and loves physical activity. "I didn't swim much before," she says. "Now I go swimming once a week...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Obesity Goes Global | 8/25/2003 | See Source »

Hurt is a cover of a song by techno-goth rockers Nine Inch Nails. Not the most obvious choice for the Man in Black...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: Aug. 4, 2003 | 8/4/2003 | See Source »

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