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Their hairdos were lacquered helmets seemingly designed to crush thoughts about anything more complicated than the cheese dip's texture. Their faces were masks, the makeup preventing any expression broader than a polite smile. Their bodies were encased in push-up bras and grasping girdles, choking any hint of untoward sexual expression...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Movies: A Heaven of Magnificent Obsessions | 11/18/2002 | See Source »

...said that politics and social theory need to be recast in a way that takes into account evidence that humans are in large part products of our unchangeable genetic makeup...

Author: By Anais A. Borja, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: MIT Linguist Pinker Rekindles Nature vs. Nurture Debate | 11/15/2002 | See Source »

...studio, Aa Gym is all smiles and jokes, waving and greeting almost everyone. The mood persists after he enters the building and sits down at a desk where he is to tape several of his minisermons. Aa Gym makes faces at himself in the monitor and clowns with the makeup brush. "You see how I do everything I can myself," he says, "even putting on makeup so that I don't need to bother other people." But when taping starts, Aa Gym snaps into performance mode. His voice drops an octave, his face changing in a second from a broad...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Holy Man | 11/4/2002 | See Source »

Feeling feminine but not weak is a strong draw for Barbara Sorenson, 55, who teaches in Lincoln, Neb. She says belly dancing indulges her desire to wear jewelry, makeup and billowing fabrics, to be "female but also strong and feminist." Sorenson says the style she teaches, Tribal Fusion, is "a dance of attitude, strength, beauty and the celebration of a woman's spirit." (Despite the emphasis on femininity, some men do belly dancing but with sharper, less rolling moves...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Shakin' All Over | 10/28/2002 | See Source »

...remote control from a mobile phone, exploded near the U.S. consulate in Bali in the city of Denpasar, not far from Kuta. Ten minutes later, a second bomb, also packed with TNT, went off beside Rimbawa as he worked in Paddy's. Minutes later the payload bomb, its exact makeup still to be confirmed, erupted on the crowded street outside the Sari Club. (Investigators believe that both of those bombs were also detonated by remote control.) "There is no doubt that this was a sophisticated attack," said an Australian Federal Police investigator. High-level police sources tell TIME that...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Rubble Trouble | 10/27/2002 | See Source »

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