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...Should it be found that active smokers tend to live longer than sedentary non-smokers, our treasured liberty to do nothing may go the way of our liberty to smoke. Televisions could join alcohol and cigarettes by getting their very own "sin" tax. One American icon, the couch potato, might join another, the Marlboro Man, as a target of paternalism...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Ashes to Ashes | 3/10/1998 | See Source »

...mystery behind "Salmon Ukka as a Dinner" ($18.50) is unraveled, it seems irresistable. A filet of fresh salmon, seared and encrusted with fresh ground pepper, is served floating in a delicate vegetable broth brimming with bite-size chunks of carrot, celery, fennel (a popular ingredient at Salts) and tender potato balls. The combination is neither nouveu Americain nor specifically Eastern European but rather a unique invention...

Author: By Rebecca U. Weiner, | Title: hoppin | 3/5/1998 | See Source »

...your bike lock will be their proctologist. Or say you're shopping with a female friend, and she has just spent the last 3 hours trying to find the perfect brown shirt-the last 3,000 shades of brown are unacceptable because apparently they make her "look like a potato." You get her attention and tap your watch, indicating to her that you could have purchased an entirely new wardrobe and knitted her a brown shirt by now, and you wish to leave this hell of fashion indecisiveness before it's too late. International Signs are everywhere, used not just...

Author: By David A. Fahrenthold, | Title: The Universal Language | 2/18/1998 | See Source »

...woman at a country bus station counts out change with an abacus. The driver of a Highland Express cab (working 24-hr. shifts) is a robust woman with a basket of huge apples by her side. Nagano is a world of deep, ancestral sounds: the traditional melody of a potato seller audible downtown; the mournful strains of an enka ballad (often known as Japanese country-and-western) in a tiny noodle shop; the martial tunes that reverberate around the old battlefield near the Olympic Village...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nagano 1998: Into The Heartland | 2/16/1998 | See Source »

...Love in the Time of Potato Our valentine's video guide: Presidents find love in the movies too. So do Russian doctors, soldiers, refugees, French thieves and, well, everyone else...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Front Page | 2/13/1998 | See Source »

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