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...Tuareg folklore, the hills are alive with the sound of jealous rage. Once upon a time, a tall lava plug called Mount Amjer spurned the advances of a volcanic vixen named Mount Tioueyin and refused to leave Mount Tahat, even though Tahat was already married to another mountain. So Tioueyin did what any self-respecting monolith would do: she left town. She moved 150 km southwest and took a suitor, Mount Iherh?, with...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sons of the Desert | 9/10/2001 | See Source »

Player haters. Maybe that's the deal. Jealous people are always player-hating the Williams sisters, calling them arrogant or aloof or unfocused on tennis. Maybe it's sexism, the resentment of a dominant pro athlete's braggadocio, seen as unseemly in a woman. Maybe it's simple racism. Or maybe it's just that the Williams sisters, as good as they are, are kind of arrogant and aloof and unfocused on tennis. "People criticize me as being arrogant," Venus said last Monday during a tournament in New Haven, Conn., her toy Yorkshire popping out of her Kate Spade...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Power Game | 9/3/2001 | See Source »

CHARLIE NORWOOD G.O.P. Rep. cuts patients'-rights deal with W. Dem pals squawk. Jealous because...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Notebook: Aug. 13, 2001 | 8/13/2001 | See Source »

...That?s where technology comes in. Thanks to the wonders of the Internet, anorexics and would-be anorexics around the globe can access more than 400 web sites designed solely for them. Need to know how to disguise your weight loss so concerned (read: jealous) friends will stop hounding you to eat? Looking for a few words of support as you launch into your latest deprivation diet? Or perhaps you?d like to know the tricks for satisfying that pesky weekly weigh-in at the doctor?s office? It?s all right here...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Anorexia Goes High Tech | 7/31/2001 | See Source »

...stubborness is also legendary: jealous at the birth of a younger brother, Gloria, at age four, refused to stay with her parents and went off to live with her maternal grandmother. She remained there for three years until she was finally coaxed home. Arroyo also refuses to speak to her half sister, Cielo Salgado, after she wrote in a book how her step mother (and Arroyo's biological mother) treated Cielo like "an errand girl...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Power and Gloria | 6/25/2001 | See Source »

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