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Tastier than its soy-laden rivals, this new wheat-based, reduced-carb pasta made its debut after Mueller's parent company partly blamed the diet for declining sales...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Skinny On Low Carbs | 5/3/2004 | See Source »

...scarcity and mystery effects. Combs' brand also enjoys a slightly nasty reputation--that's good--not least for his star-crossed association with Lopez. What's more, his 2001 trial for bribery and weapons possession very quickly turned into a high-profile runway show, which somehow befits a corporate parent called Bad Boy Worldwide Entertainment Group. (Combs was acquitted...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: We're All Glamorous! | 5/3/2004 | See Source »

...Jennifer Lopez), Ollie Trinke (Ben Affleck), a workaholic music publicist whose pathological impatience is both his greatest asset and worst liability, is left to take care of their baby, a daughter he names Gertie. Unable to cope with his wife’s death or his new role as parent, Trinke immerses himself in work until his father, Bart (George Carlin), refuses to take care of Gertie any longer. Flustered, abandoned, and completely covered in baby powder, Trinke has a very public nervous breakdown at a news conference. Though Affleck should never attempt to cry on film...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Happenings | 4/30/2004 | See Source »

...University’s clerical and technical support staff finally succeeded in forming a union. Despite a climate of intimidation and a year-long legal challenge brought by Harvard, clerical and technical workers—numbering 83% women at the time—linked up with a national parent union and became AFSCME Local 3650, the Harvard Union of Clerical and Technical Workers (HUCTW). HUCTW proceeded to negotiate a contract with Harvard with provisions for women’s pay equity, child care and parental leave as its cornerstones...

Author: By Amee Chew, Marcel A.Q. Laflamme, and Aidan S. Madigan-curtis, S | Title: No Layoffs | 4/30/2004 | See Source »

...circumstances surrounding the birth of a female infant in Kosciusko, Miss., on Jan. 29, 1954, were not promising. Present was the usual mix that had so often accumulated into a burden too heavy for a single-parent household like the one Oprah Winfrey grew up in. The state in which she was born had laws in place waiting to characterize her as unwelcome, to bar her participation in otherwise acceptable social activities, to shackle her to the residue of slavery and other injustices of the past. The simple truth is that her grandmother, her great-grandmother and all the great...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Oprah Winfrey: Talk-Show Inspiration | 4/26/2004 | See Source »

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