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...your best allies in this struggle are your muscles. Building them up and using them regularly in such pursuits as walking or dancing draw more glucose out of the bloodstream and increase insulin's efficiency. It also pays to avoid easily digested foods--like chips, nondiet soda and other junk food--which require large amounts of insulin to metabolize. Finally, losing a little weight usually makes insulin's job a lot easier...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Health: Why So Many Of Us Are Getting Diabetes | 12/8/2003 | See Source »

...memories and characters of childhood. On Harvey Birdman: Attorney-at-Law, a superhero turned lawyer defends cartoon characters--for instance, he represents Scooby-Doo's Shaggy for drug possession. The Adult Swim sensibility caters perfectly to the Gen X--Gen Y brand of nostalgia: affectionate derision for the junk of one's youth. It's like a restaurant that fashions three-star meals out of Doritos and Ring Dings...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Television: Hey, Look! Manimation | 11/24/2003 | See Source »

...Matrix's sentinels--those metal octopests, those enemy anemones that chased the humans in M1 and M2. They're back in megaforce, forming a snake shape that rears and strikes at Zion. So the human soldiers get outfitted in gigantic robot armor--clinking, clanking, clattering collections of collagenous junk...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Movies: The Matrix Rebounded | 11/17/2003 | See Source »

Traditional animation is supposed to be dead, the victim of cost overruns and audience apathy. The shiny plastic toys of computer cartoons enchant the world--Finding Nemo is still the year's top-grossing film--while Disney and DreamWorks can't wait to junk a grand cinematic form that stretches, in glory and profit, from Snow White to The Lion King and beyond...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Movies: Two Charming Foreigners | 11/17/2003 | See Source »

...served in Bill Clinton's Labor Department, then went home to Michigan and ran unsuccessfully for Governor in 1998. "I learned during the campaign there was one overpowering issue for inner-city parents: to get their kids a college education," Ross told me. "I was tired of theoretical policy junk; I wanted to do something that really mattered. It was clear that urban kids were not responding to the industrial-age assembly-line education model--and there were people around the country who had figured out how to educate kids in a more humane, customized...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: How the Teachers Killed a Dream | 11/3/2003 | See Source »

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