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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...data suggest creatine is safe enough. There is some controversy over whether it causes diarrhea, cramping or dehydration. And there have been no long-term studies to show what happens over five, 10 or 15 years. If you still want to be a guinea pig, hook up with a knowledgeable trainer who can monitor your condition. But remember: the only sure way to improve your batting is to get out there and knock the ball around...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Muscle Candy | 6/14/1999 | See Source »

...Lionel, prolific composers from Hollywood's golden middle age--would have every reason to be proud of their nephew Randy. This year he was nominated for Oscars in three categories: dramatic score (for Pleasantville), musical or comedy score (A Bug's Life) and song (That'll Do, from Babe: Pig in the City). And since he lost in all three categories, as he did the nine previous times he was nominated, Randy Newman might feel a strange satisfaction as well: he's been writing about bitter losers and empty hallways since the Beatles had bowl haircuts. Newman's four...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Bad Love Is Good News | 6/14/1999 | See Source »

...PIG SPENDER Congress never met a bill it couldn't stuff with special spending programs. The emergency appropriations bill for NATO's attack on Yugoslavia is particularly porky. Some of the "emergencies" that seem the least urgent...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Pork Talk | 5/31/1999 | See Source »

...other shows, so that "the star of the afternoon soap opera The Naked and the Damned (formerly Trailer Park) would appear as a contestant on the game show Quacks like a Duck." Or, in one of the book's funniest running motifs, the transplantation of a pig liver into the female protagonist's father, a Hollywood hustler of exceptional charm and exceptional coarseness. (Son-in-law to daughter: "You had a whole childhood to get nauseated by show biz. I was vulgarity-deprived...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Isn't It Post-Ironic? | 5/17/1999 | See Source »

...pig. "The best kind of deal is one that works out well for both sides," says Sumner Redstone, CEO of Viacom. AutoNation chairman H. Wayne Huizenga says, "You never know when you'll find yourself sitting across the negotiating table from that person again." In market terms: Forget the last fraction. Pigs get slaughtered...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Mogul Moments | 5/3/1999 | See Source »

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