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...McCain's chief strategist, campaign manager, research director, political director and communications director (plus his two deputies) all resigned. With less cash on hand than libertarian gadfly Ron Paul, the one-time nominee-in-waiting is now stuck in third or fourth place in most polls among the Republican pack...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Art of the Restart | 8/14/2007 | See Source »

Some friends cause hypertension, some cause inebriation and some, it is now confirmed, cause obesity. Or the opposite. The study concludes that skinny people, likewise, tend to make their friends skinny. In high school, you could have chosen a friend with a six-pack of abs. Instead, you chose a friend with a six-pack of Coors. And that, as Frost wrote, has made all the difference...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: How Friends Make You Fat | 8/2/2007 | See Source »

...meter individual medley. After arriving in Rio de Janiero in July with 46 other American athletes looking to compete against representatives from over 40 countries, Rathgeber started with a bang in his preliminary heat. Competing in cold rain and wind in an outdoor pool, he led the pack and shaved nearly two seconds off his personal best to finish in 2:01.81, the fastest time in the prelims. He also experienced a bit of anti-American sentiment, as the Brazilian fans—who continually packed the arenas—booed because a representative from the United States...

Author: By Julie R.S. Fogarty, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Rathgeber Takes Fifth at Pan Am Competition | 7/30/2007 | See Source »

There I met Margaret Anderson, a pediatric nurse from Nashville and a member of the faculty at Vanderbilt University. She works in the infirmary while her 11-year-old son Gage discovers the woods on multi-day pack trips. "I call this place Boy Heaven," she says...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Myth About Boys | 7/26/2007 | See Source »

Catherine Castrence is not a morning person. So between getting her daughters dressed and fed breakfast, letting the dog out and giving an insulin shot to the family's diabetic cat, the Reston, Va., working mother of two barely had time to pack her kids' lunches before getting them to day camp by 8:00. But this summer she and her husband are outsourcing that particular ritual. Health e-Lunch Kids charges them $4.99 apiece for the homemade, nutritious meals it delivers each day to the local YMCA where Maddy, 9, and Elena, 6, are spending eight weeks...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Parenting Subcontractors | 7/26/2007 | See Source »

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