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Haworth, at 5 ft. 10 in. and 300 lbs., is an exceptional athlete in a body that screams couch potato. As a high school softball player, she was so good that kids called her "the Arm," but Haworth wasn't satisfied with the game. Her dad, knowing she had always been interested in those bodybuilding TV shows, took her to see Cohen in 1996. When Haworth lifted a bar with more than 100 lbs. on it "like it was a loaf of bread," he knew he'd found a keeper...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Meet the Power Sisters | 7/24/2000 | See Source »

...recap. Last year, everything was just fine. I was happy as I used my Nokia to order gourmet potato chips that I could afford because of my burgeoning portfolio. Now I'm staring down financial ruin, impending brain damage and an eerily complementary brain tumor. What a wonderful new century - I'm certainly glad I won't be around for the next...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cell Phones, Dot-coms and Prozac Were My Friends... | 7/18/2000 | See Source »

...ships are laying down miles of high-speed fiber-optic cable capacious enough to carry 600,000 calls simultaneously. In a high mountain town outside Cuzco, Peru, a co-op of native farmers has found a way to get more than 10 times the local price for its potato crop by selling to a New York City organic-food store it found on the Internet. In the streets of Sao Paulo, fashionable women have taken to carrying around white West Highland terriers, the mascot of a free Internet-service provider called iG that, like the pups, has skyrocketed in popularity...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Latin America Logs On | 5/8/2000 | See Source »

McDonald's has decided to put public relations before profit in rejecting the use of genetically modified potatoes for its famed french fries. The Wall Street Journal reported Friday that McDonald's, Frito-Lay and other fast-food and snack-food companies are pulling genetically modified (GM) potatoes from the fryer and quietly telling their suppliers to stick to non-GM varieties. In fact, potato wholesalers have received so many requests for non-genetically modified potatoes that they have asked farmers to stop growing the "NewLeaf" potato, developed by Monsanto, which is equipped with a gene that protects it from...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Why McDonalds Pulled Frankenfries From Menu | 4/28/2000 | See Source »

...pages and pages of advertising, as in most glossy monthlies. Oprah tried on every fashion item featured in the magazine's "O List," according to King. "She won't recommend something she hasn't tried herself," says King. "There's one list in which you have a bag of potato chips next to a $250 pair of shoes. That's very Oprah...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Press: The Stories of O | 4/24/2000 | See Source »

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