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Where Oregon officials are concerned, half a loaf is worse than none at all. State law specifies that no commercially sold bread may weigh less than 15 oz. That would prohibit the popular baguette, the lean French bread that weighs in at a stylish 8 oz. Crusty authorities cracked down on baguettes in January, getting a rise out of Oregonians who love the bread's light, crispy texture. The 1939 bread law was written to protect consumers against "balloon bread" that had more air than dough. But doubling the weight of the 2-ft.-long baguette would mean doubling...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Oregon: The Guillotine for Baguettes | 4/7/1986 | See Source »

...five final commuter miles from Boston's North Station to his office near Harvard Square. On weekends he competes in 10-km road races and regularly finishes among the top three or four runners in his age group. "That feeds my self-esteem," says Bethell, who maintains a lean 5-ft. 11-in., 160-lb. silhouette. Even more satisfying, he feels that he is healthier today than...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Health & Fitness: Extra Years for Extra Effort | 3/17/1986 | See Source »

...nice enough guy. So there were a lot of pictures of naked girls lying around--so what? They were nice pictures, not like Hustler. It began to seem perfectly normal to sit and discuss topless, bottomless, nude and semi-nude, and completely natural to pose hips out, bust forward, lean a little, smile, a little more bust, turn your head...normal, natural, socially acceptable...

Author: By Ariela J. Gross, | Title: Tales of a Would-be Playboy Bunny? | 3/10/1986 | See Source »

...divorce rates rise and young people wait longer to get married, more and more Americans are living and eating alone. Rather than sit down to a feast each night, they often choose to heat and eat a Lean Cuisine or Le Menu frozen dinner. Now comes a convenient appliance in which to cook such solitary repasts: the Half Pint microwave oven. Made by Japan's Sharp Electronics, this compact cooker is small enough (13 in. by 13 in.) to fit snugly into the tiniest studio apartment. It will bake a potato in six minutes, only a tad slower than...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Appliances: Fast Food for Singles | 3/3/1986 | See Source »

...appeal of an island is older than prose. It is a universal symbol, as valid for the isolated state as for the besieged heart. In this lean, piercing novel, Lisa Grunwald renews the metaphor by making Sanders Island, off Cape Cod, Mass., a garden and a desert. The narrator, Jennifer Burke, is the younger daughter of what seems an ideal couple: Milo and Lulu Burke are so devoted that they have always refused to fly in separate planes because "they wouldn't have wanted to go on without each other...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: New Pleasures and Promises | 2/17/1986 | See Source »

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