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...Miriam Nelson and Tufts University colleagues proved that lifting weights doesn't just build muscles. It also strengthens brittle bones and reduces osteoporosis risk in older women. Ever since, she's been crusading to reacquaint women with their biceps, triceps and hamstrings. "We value our skin, breasts and hair," Nelson says. "But we don't value our muscles as much as we should...
...road song sometimes seems like a anachronism in this age of flight. So it comes as a pleasant surprise that Back Porch assembled a talented and diverse group of musicians to record The I-10 Chronicles, an entire album of road songs. Willie Nelson, Counting Crows frontman Adam Duritz and harmonica great Charlie Musselwhite are just a few of the contributors to this ambitious project...
...together the musical styles that can be heard along the I-10, a freeway that stretches across the southern United States. The original blues and country compositions are enjoyable. There are quite a few covers, too; Duritz's remake of Warren Zevon's "Carmelita" stands out, as does Willie Nelson's interpretation of "Everybody's Talkin'." Even Cuban guitarist Eliades Ochoa (featured in Buena Vista Social Club) joins in, performing "El Guateque de Don Thomas," a traditional Cuban song; as the liner notes explain, Cuban music was popular along the Gulf of Mexico...
...Marilyn Monroe cooed Happy Birthday) and touring with Paul Simon. Her personal life was sometimes tumultuous--she's been married to South African trumpeter Hugh Masekela and American black-power activist Stokely Carmichael. Now single, she laughs and says she is "too old to marry again." In 1990, after Nelson Mandela's release from prison, Makeba returned to South Africa. On Homeland Makeba's music sounds timeless and tireless. The succulent African pop songs are in English and in Xhosa (Makeba's native tongue). The first track, Masakhane, is a stirring call "for unity and hope in the postapartheid...
TIME's coverage of environmental issues has grown right along with Earth Day. The brainchild of former Senator Gaylord Nelson, it began in the U.S. as a day of ragtag demonstrations on April 22, 1970, and now, on its 30th anniversary, is an Internet-driven global happening. TIME caught the wave even before the first Earth Day, establishing our Environment section in August 1969. Over the years the section has produced dozens of cover stories, including the 1989 special report in which we named Endangered Earth as Planet of the Year. In 1998 our U.S. edition launched a two-year...