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...thing is such a clich? these days. If you're in this for the long haul, you might consider upgrading - either to an actual supermodel (Kate Moss may be available, and now that she's gained a bit of weight, she could probably double as your caddy in a pinch) or to someone with more ethnic cachet, like Jennifer Lopez or Mercedes Ruehl...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Dear Tiger: An Open Letter to the King of Swing | 8/21/2000 | See Source »

...study by Cerulli Associates. This option lets employees use their 401(k)s to trade stocks or pick mutual funds outside the sponsor's list. Keep in mind, though, that some plans have limits on the amount you can trade, and the extra fees for trading and commissions could pinch returns...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: In Brief: Aug. 14, 2000 | 8/14/2000 | See Source »

...maker, will soon be offering another ergonomic design: a rubber grip on handlebars with a built-in suspension system to eliminate vibration on your ulnar nerve, which extends from the underside of your forearm to your pinkie and ring finger. When you grasp the handlebars long and hard, you pinch this nerve. Result: ouch...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Bikes Are Back......Bigtime | 6/26/2000 | See Source »

Reports that Pakistan's nuclear capability far exceeds India's are likely to be taken with a pinch of salt among observers of South Asia's arms race - and among missile-defense skeptics. According to a number of unnamed military and intelligence sources cited by NBC, the U.S. now believes that far from being the region's nuclear underdog, Pakistan may have up to five times as many warheads as India and is way ahead of its rival in developing missile systems to carry them. Whereas it had originally been believed that Pakistan had between 10 and 15 nuclear devices...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sometimes, It Helps to Add a 'Rogue State' | 6/7/2000 | See Source »

...another unlikely escape, and like his previous one - in which he'd gone in less than a year from death row to the vice presidency - it symbolized the ineptitude of international efforts to stop the war in Sierra Leone. Sankoh may well have been tempted to pinch himself last summer when he received a phone call from President Clinton urging him to accept a peace deal that Reverend Jesse Jackson had spent days cajoling him to sign. And it was a pretty sweet deal for a man who'd been bound for the firing squad a few short months earlier...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Resistible Rise of Foday Sankoh | 5/12/2000 | See Source »

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