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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...soundtrack to a massage or dinner party, so save it for when in a cosmic mood. Pour a glass of something, close your eyes and let your soul soar through those boundless Tuvan skies. If these rousing sensations inspire you to strip off your shirt and strike macho poses while straddling a horse, well, fine. But we recommend you keep the photos to yourself...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Steppe It Up | 10/26/2009 | See Source »

Italian women are popularly defined by their role in the Prime Minister's macho broadcast nation, where pretty girls wear lingerie on television and hanker for the loving touch of a septuagenarian. Even female news anchors reading their lines over video of gore in Afghanistan wear halter tops. The reputedly randy Prime Minister has promoted some of the more lovely young things - dubbed by Italians vitello, or veal - from his broadcasting empire into his Cabinet. He has deflected the political fallout from the nearly pornographic video of orgiastic parties at his villas. First-person accounts from prostitutes hired to entertain...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Tough Women of the Amanda Knox Case | 9/29/2009 | See Source »

...political weakness, and Beck has emerged as a virtuoso on the strings of their discontent. Rush Limbaugh, with his supreme self-confidence, holding forth with "half my brain tied behind my back just to make it fair," found his place as the triumphant champion of the Age of Reagan. Macho Sean Hannity captured the cocky vibe of the early Bush years, dunking the feckless liberal Alan Colmes for nightly swirlies on the Fox News Channel. Both men remain media dynamos, but it is Beck - nervous, beset, desperate - who now channels the mood of many on the right. "I'm afraid...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Mad Man: Is Glenn Beck Bad for America? | 9/17/2009 | See Source »

...Even President Obama, who had just dismissed conservative claims that illegal immigrants would be able to take advantage of health-care reform, was taken aback. He looked to his left, adjusted his arm, part nervous twitch, part macho posturing, and shot back at Wilson, "That's not true." And there, for a moment, the nation watched two men, elected to lead, call each other the worst thing in politics - dishonorable deceivers. (See 10 players in health-care reform...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: 'You Lie!': Representative Wilson's Outburst | 9/10/2009 | See Source »

Think military and you think macho, not meditation, but that's about to change now that the Army intends to train its 1.1 million soldiers in the art of mental toughness. The Defense Department hopes that giving soldiers tools to fend off mental stress will toughen its troops at war and at home. It's the first time mental combat is being mandated on a large scale, but a few thousand soldiers who have participated in a voluntary program called Warrior Mind Training have already gotten a taste of how strengthening the mind is way different - dare we say harder...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Samurai Mind Training for Modern American Warriors | 9/6/2009 | See Source »

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