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They trigger our awe and our nostalgia as representatives of a flinty, hardscrabble culture that hardly exists today. They lived out a parable of man at one with nature. They used their bodies as they were designed and programmed over the millennia: for walking, for working, for being fed from the earth's natural bounty. It makes one wonder whether the next generation of oldsters will last quite as long. They will need not just the luck of the genetic draw but also the strength to renounce the lure of fast-food days and couch-potato nights that add yards...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: How To Live To Be 100 | 8/30/2004 | See Source »

...setting A Starflyer Is Born In-flight comfort with an internet connection in every seat Take a Hike Destinations to restore your sense of wonder You don't have to be a top athlete to take home some gold from the Games. Athenians have been working the metal for millennia, and the glitzy Kolonaki district has a high concentration of jewelers purveying classic and modern designs. Start out at Ilias Lalaounis, on 6 Panepistimiou Street, tel: (30-210) 362 4354, with its eclectic collection that ranges from solid-gold Byzantine-style necklaces to thoroughly modern earrings with the jagged contours...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Athens' Precious metals | 8/8/2004 | See Source »

...destroy an institution that gay couples merely want to join? In private, the rhetoric was even stronger. A leading religious-right supporter of the President, James Dobson, wrote to his followers earlier this month: "Barring a miracle, the family as it has been known for more than five millennia will crumble, presaging the fall of Western civilization itself." Gary Bauer, head of the Campaign for Working Families, wrote to his supporters: "If you still think homosexual 'marriage' won't affect you, think again. Your job may be at stake! ... Once the state approves of homosexual 'marriages,' the full weight...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: If at First You Don't Succeed... | 7/26/2004 | See Source »

...process that can be used by entrenched ?lites to hold on to power while they "ready" their nations for democracy. In a recent speech, Mark Malloch-Brown, the administrator of the U.N. Development Program, acknowledged that "democracy is a long project" but cautioned against "believing that democracy takes millennia to evolve." Elections may not be everything, but you have to start somewhere. Countries that have free elections may or may not be truly democratic; countries that do not have them never...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Asian Values | 7/5/2004 | See Source »

...process that can be used by entrenched ?lites to hold on to power while they "ready" their nations for democracy. In a recent speech, Mark Malloch-Brown, the administrator of the U.N. Development Program, acknowledged that "democracy is a long project" but cautioned against "believing that democracy takes millennia to evolve." Elections may not be everything, but you have to start somewhere. Countries that have free elections may or may not be truly democratic; countries that do not have them never...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Asian Values | 7/5/2004 | See Source »

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