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However they achieve their swift pace, Suetsugu and Liu are blazing a new path for Asian speedsters. For decades?even centuries?Asians have been convinced that their genes prevented them from winning high-piston track events like the sprints or hurdles. Conventional wisdom held that the limber, compact Asian body...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Breaking Away | 8/9/2004 | See Source »

It?s one of the more depressing truisms of the day: Young people hate old songs. They don?t get the smoothness, the optimism, the careful rhyming. Precision of lyric and emotion is so uncool it?s almost Republican. (Worse then Republican: most of them would rather listen to Cheney...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Three Reasons to Love New York — Part II | 8/1/2004 | See Source »

For the uninitiated, the traditional Chinese cheongsam is a tightly fitted garment, with side slits that go as high as the wearer dares?from modest notches above the knee to attention-grabbing openings as high as the upper thigh. Precision tailoring is vital, and that's why Cao's clients...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Style Watch | 6/21/2004 | See Source »

Jacobs is part of an exciting vanguard--the first wave of cancer patients who are benefiting from a more targeted, molecular-based assault on the disease. Old-fashioned chemotherapy and radiation treatments were blunt weapons that killed healthy cells along with malignant ones; the treatments were far too toxic for...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Health: Surviving Cancer | 6/21/2004 | See Source »

The show is smartly expanded for the Hirschfeld Theatre without losing its original Encores! feel. Beatty's spare but suggestive sets fly up and down cast in front of the on-stage orchestra (at 24 members, the largest on Broadway). Westfeldt has the requisite innocent allure, and Gregg Edelman, as...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: That Old Feeling: Bravo! Encores! | 6/12/2004 | See Source »

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