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"Let's do our daily playercise," burbles Instructor Jackie Rubenstein, as she launches into a nursery-like rhyme: "Open, shut them, give a little clap, clap, clap, and put them in your lap, lap, lap . . ." On cue, 19 mothers seated in a circle on the floor grasp the wrists of...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Health & Fitness: C'Mon Now, Shape It Up, Baby | 10/5/1987 | See Source »

When presented with a baby, otherwise healthy adults are overcome with the impulse to assume a series of funny faces, and to then make strange gurgling noises. In this way they work themselves into a mad frenzy that culminates in the desire to love, feed, and possess the organic mound...

Author: By Eric Pulier, | Title: Cabbage Patch Currency | 4/16/1987 | See Source »

The September mission will be the ultimate test of both Voyager and its pilots. On their 4 1/2-day flight, Rutan and Yeager were confined to a cabin that is only 2 ft. wide at its narrowest and 7 1/2 ft. long, just enough room for the passenger to lie alongside...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Voyager's Triumph | 7/28/1986 | See Source »

At the dawning there were isolated stragglers, determinedly circling suburban high school tracks or pacing through city parks. Most Americans did not suppose these were the harbingers of a U.S. craze. But by the end of the 1970s joggers were everywhere, all seemingly in training for the marathon. Other citizens...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Health & Fitness: A National Obsession the U.S. Turns on to Exercise | 6/16/1986 | See Source »

When people hear the name Zenith, they usually think of television sets. But these days, Zenith is making a name for itself in computers. Last week the Glenview, Ill., company (1985 sales: $1.6 billion) struck pay dirt twice. First it scored a surprise victory over IBM and ten other firms...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Computers: Changing Channels At Zenith | 3/10/1986 | See Source »

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