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...clearly it isn't that easy. Americans pour scores of billions of dollars every year into weight-loss products and health-club memberships and liposuction and gastric bypass operations--100,000 of the latter last year alone. Food and drug companies spend even more trying to find a magic food or drug that will melt the pounds away. Yet the nation's collective waistline just keeps growing...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: America's Obesity Crisis:Evolution: How We Grew So Big | 6/7/2004 | See Source »

...Morning in America" slogan resonated with an electorate ready to hear that things were getting better even before objective indicators confirmed that fact. And that optimism and confidence in itself helped to turn things around. Today, politicians of both parties routinely seek to capture some of the Reagan magic. There was the easy average-Joe charisma in his every communication with his electorate; the proclamation of moral clarity that framed political choices in terms of core beliefs; the strategy (mimicked by President Clinton) of using his skills as a communicator to appeal directly to the electorate over the heads...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Ronald Reagan, 1911-2004 | 6/5/2004 | See Source »

...digital video camera as well as a hosted weblogging service like TypePad and, if you want, editing software such as Final Cut Pro or iMovie (the latter is free with most Apple computers). For really spiffy professional results, it makes sense to invest in tools like Serious Magic's Visual Communicator, a TelePrompTer-graphics-backdrop package that provides network-news production values...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: See Me, Blog Me | 5/31/2004 | See Source »

Days later, India?s Hiranandani Corp. Worldwide announced a refinancing deal and declared Nauru ?saved from bankruptcy.? But PPB?s Stephen Parbery says the deal, like others before it, is a mirage; the assets will eventually be sold. ?There?s no magic wand,? he says. ?Talk of refinancing flies in the face of economic reality.? A government spokeswoman says talks with HCW ?and several others? are continuing...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Can Nauru Stay Afloat? | 5/18/2004 | See Source »

...that the flame Rachel carried for Ross has been snuffed out of prime time, JENNIFER ANISTON fans have another hot event to anticipate. The torchbearers for this summer's Olympics in Athens were announced last week, and there on the list among the athletic likes of Magic Johnson, Gail Devers and Carl Lewis was the Greek-American actress. Aniston, whose father's original name is Anastassakis and whose godfather was Telly Savalas, certainly has Hellenic cred. But we still bet My Big Fat Greek Wedding's Nia Vardalos is peeved...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: See Jen Run | 5/17/2004 | See Source »

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