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...preface this by saying that I’ve lived in and around cities for my entire life. I grew up 30 minutes from downtown Manhattan, and I love the view, but it never meant too much to me. Maybe I took it for granted. But, all the same, resplendent sunsets, perfect night skies, and picturesque mountain peaks never quite did it for me. I mean, they’re pretty—I get that—and I like to look at them, but no view had ever really emotionally impacted me. Until this summer...

Author: By Adam R. Perlman, | Title: POSTCARD FROM WASHINGTON:The View From D.C. | 8/17/2001 | See Source »

...fact: Living in a one-room apartment in Manhattan does not afford one a great deal of storage space...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Forget Brunei, I'm Gearing up for the Sale of the Century! | 8/17/2001 | See Source »

...Fashion model Charlotte Swenson returns to Manhattan, having just recovered from a catastrophic car accident in her hometown of Rockford, Illinois. The skin of her face is perfect, but behind it eighty titanium screws hold together the bones that were shattered when she hit the unbreakable windshield of her car. Unrecognizable to her peers and colleagues, Charlotte finds it impossible to resume her former life. Instead, she floats invisibly through a world of fashion nightclubs and edgy Internet projects, where image and reality are indistinguishable. During her recovery in Rockford, she has met another Charlotte, the plain-looking teenage daughter...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Galley Girl: Moon Unit Zappa Edition | 8/16/2001 | See Source »

...gadgets get you off the couch and on the floor, that's progress. But don't expect a few minutes' exercise to transform your midriff. Alicia Calaway, 33, the personal trainer from Manhattan whose textbook anatomy wowed millions of viewers of Survivor: The Australian Outback, tries to work out 1 1/2 hours a day, five days a week, to maintain her physique. Strangers still ask her to lift her shirt for an ab peep show, she says. "My abs are so popular at this point, I'm thinking about putting out a video to teach people what I know...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Absolutely Fabulous? | 8/13/2001 | See Source »

...official version is that in her penthouse suite at the Tribeca Grand Hotel in Manhattan, Carey became severely agitated and tossed crockery about; that she stepped on the shards and cut her bare feet; that she asked to be taken to the suburban home of her mother Patricia; that once there she spiraled into a nervous breakdown; that her mother dialed 911 and got Mariah to the hospital, where she was treated for exhaustion. She is now resting in a Connecticut psychiatric facility. "She is improving daily," Berger says. "It's one day at a time...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Diva Takes A Dive | 8/13/2001 | See Source »

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