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...Like virtually every Hong Kong singer, Tse made films. In his debut, Young and Dangerous: The Prequel, he revealed a complex screen persona, seductive and lonely, under that peekaboo mop of hair. He impressed critics as a gangster's prot?g? in Metade Fumaca and as the tyro gunman in Tsui Hark's Time and Tide. They called him a natural?not the next Andy Lau but the one and only Nicholas...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Hard Time for a Rebel | 10/7/2002 | See Source »

McNitt said the vandals appear to have broken into the dining halls by accessing a door off of a mop sink that leads into the Pfoho dining hall, which connects to the Cabot dining hall...

Author: By Jenifer L. Steinhardt, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Quad Dining Halls Vandalized Over Weekend | 9/17/2002 | See Source »

...focus on line extensions, Lafley knows that P&G can live off its existing brands for only so long without developing a new blockbuster product, the kind it hasn't had since the Always feminine pad debuted in 1983. The Swiffer electrostatic mop and ThermaCare heat wraps have been only modest successes. And despite the early encouraging reception for Actonel--and the prospect of promising future treatments for diabetes and female sexual dysfunction--the relatively small, billion-dollar pharmaceutical division is still a major question mark. As Duke University business professor Kevin Schulman argues, consumer products and drugs "have very...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Healthy Gamble | 9/16/2002 | See Source »

...post was once the domain of giants like the autocratic Herbert von Karajan, but with his boyish enthusiasm and unruly curls Rattle cuts a different sort of figure. A native of Liverpool who grew up when the city's four other famous mop tops were shaping tastes in music, he found his calling at a performance of Mahler's Second Symphony. "I was around 11 or 12, and all I remember is the feeling that I wanted to be in the center of this," he says. "It never occurred to me that it would happen as fast...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Thoroughly Modern Maestro | 9/9/2002 | See Source »

...carbohydrates seem to have been created equal. So-called simple carbohydrates, those found in white bread and cake, are so quickly digested by the body that they trigger a very rapid rise in the levels of glucose in the blood. The pancreas releases a massive amount of insulin to mop up the excess. Soon enough, however, blood glucose levels plummet to the point where our brains may feel woozy, we become excessively hungry and are driven to eat again. Complex carbohydrates, on the other hand, particularly those rich in fiber, do not elicit the same kind of spike-and-crash...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cracking the Fat Riddle | 9/2/2002 | See Source »

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