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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...since the birth of her first child 41 years ago but had grown noticeably worse in the past decade. "Every time I coughed or sneezed," she says, "I had to cross my legs to stop leaking or else die from embarrassment." Bartosh had to limit her liquid intake, and maxi pads became a wardrobe staple. After years of feeling ashamed, she finally saw a urologist. "I was looking for a way to make the quality of my life better...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Body & Mind: Taking Back Control | 4/12/2004 | See Source »

...great episode (410), Kyle's three friends - Stan, Kenny and Cartman - are prepared for their first Holy Communion and scared crapless that they'll go to hell if they don't confess all their sins. Kyle, equally, panicked, wants to confess too. But the very conservative priest, Father Maxi, informs Kyle solemnly that he and his hapless kind are condemned to wade forever in the wretched lake of fire. His colleague, the more liberal Sister Anne, is shocked: "I think that as long as Jewish people are good, they will get into heaven." The priest is incensed: "Sister, the Jews...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Jesus Christ Movie Star | 2/29/2004 | See Source »

...Know that Maxi is quickly punished for his doctrinal heresy. He's found fornicating in the confessional, and the shocked children start their own church. Indeed, they often flirt with religious cults, other sects ("All About the Mormons," episode 712) and Christian rock. In "Christian Rock Hard" (episode 709), Cartman forms a trio called Faith + 1 that zooms to the top of the Christian charts with such romantic ballads as "I Wasn't Born Again Yesterday" and "Three Times My Savior." The record executives are troubled by the intensity of Cartman's lyrics: "It appears you are actually... in love...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Jesus Christ Movie Star | 2/29/2004 | See Source »

...what became known as the Maxi-Trials in the mid-1980s, Sicilian prosecutors tried hundreds of Mafia suspects en masse for crimes ranging from murder to criminal association. The sweeping strategy hit Cosa Nostra in the trenches, marking a critical victory for such crusading magistrates as Giovanni Falcone and Paolo Borsellino. It was also great theater. Crammed together into a custom-made, bunker-like courtroom, the accused seemed straight from a Hollywood casting call for Mob thugs: often unshaven, sweaty and in short-sleeved leisure shirts, the Mafia men pointed fingers and hollered threats from inside steel cages that ringed...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Meet The Modern Mob | 6/2/2002 | See Source »

...their main source of information about puberty. They appreciate mothers' stories about their own experiences, and they need to hear the same information again and again. But parents should lose the line about "now you're a woman." A 10-year-old who's wearing a bra and a maxi pad needs to know just the opposite: she's still a child...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: What To Tell Your Daughter | 10/30/2000 | See Source »

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