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...Census-mania has brought a spirit of philanthropy to Detroit, however. Local McDonalds owners gave unlimited, free meals to almost 10,000 homeless citizens for filling out their censuses and receiving a yellow button reading, "I'm important. I've been counted...
...test, they revealed an even deeper sense of inadequacy about their bodies. More than half of boys ages 11 to 17 chose as their physical ideal an image possible to attain only by using steroids. So they do. Boys are a big part of the clientele at Muscle Mania (not its real name), a weight-lifting store that TIME visited last week at a strip mall in a Boston suburb. A couple of teenagers came in to ask about tribulus, one of the many over-the-counter drugs and body-building supplements the store sells, all legally...
...years ago because of chest pain, tells the kid, "The s___ shuts off your nuts," meaning steroids can reduce sperm production, shrink the testicles and cause impotence. Tribulus, Patrick says, can help restart natural testosterone production. The teen hands over $12 for 100 Tribulus Fuel pills. (Every day, Muscle Mania does $4,000 in sales of such products, with protein supplements and so-called fat burners leading the pack...
Giorgio Armani's new scent is called Mania. Later this year Ralph Lauren will launch a perfume called Ralph. And Givenchy has three scents due in the fall: Fast Forward, Rewind and Play. After years of offering exotic and sensuously named perfumes and colognes, fragrancemakers have started giving scents names that evoke more prosaic moments...
...better than we do," says Chasez. "We've had people hide under the tablecloth of room-service tables," says Joey Fatone, 23. "This family went on a pilgrimage to my house and left me all these pictures of Bass shoes," says Bass. "I think they're psycho." 'N Sync mania is even more intense outside the U.S. "We think Europe has the next Olympic gold medalists, because they will chase our bus for one or two miles," explains Timberlake. And the band isn't even aware that at this moment 30 teenage girls, and nine of the smartest teenage boys...