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...cholesterol. This is despite more than 25 years of warnings from doctors and the American Heart Association about the dangers of such oleaginous indulgence. All their good advice, plus the urgings of the health-and-fitness movement, has, it seems, succeeded only in making us feel guiltier as we plow our way through the eggs Benedict. Although intake of animal fats has been declining, American men continue to consume an average of about 500 mg of cholesterol a day, and women 350 mg, in both cases about 60% more than the Heart Association recommends. About 40% of our daily calories...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Hold the Eggs and Butter | 3/26/1984 | See Source »

...complete range of her character. She is stifled by Friedman's stiff unemotional dialogue. Unlike Rocky, with whom the audience seemed to sweat and also cheer. Shirley is a cold, almost superhuman character who seems to know exactly what she wants and how to get there. We watch her plow her way through personal conflicts, the male dominated world of the race track, with a hard-nosed determination that asks for no compassion. Shirley always wins her races, and we always know she will...

Author: By Rachel H. Inker, | Title: Spinning Their Wheels | 3/16/1984 | See Source »

...finally a millionaire," said Calvin McCracken, adding that he had been a millionaire several times before, only to plow his money into other ideas, some of which were not successful enough to a sustain his membership | in the world of mega° wealth. McCracken said he would probably sock his funds into yet another notion, as he always has. (Next time you go to the cinema, as you pass those hot dogs turning on those tubular rollers, think of McCracken. He made a million...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: In Virginia: A Convention for Inventions | 3/5/1984 | See Source »

Although the College has researched the overcrowding dilemma and the amount of living space before, it "did not have a complete inventory" of the Houses on computer files," added Gefter. "You've got to plow through hundreds of pages of documents to find out what you want...

Author: By Thomas H. Howlett, | Title: Study May Alter Numbers in Houses | 9/21/1983 | See Source »

Sodbusters buy rangeland at prices that are relatively low because of today's depressed livestock industry, plow and plant the acreage in wheat, then sell the cultivated land, sometimes to buyers unfamiliar with the region and the fragility of the range's topsoil. Since the mid-1970s, planted prairie tracts have shot up in value because of speculation in cropland as an inflation hedge and federal farm programs such as PIK (payment in kind...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Carving Out a New Dust Bowl | 6/27/1983 | See Source »

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