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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...American Diabetes Association has packaged one with its new book on the benefits of physical activity, Small Steps, Big Rewards, and McDonald's offered a free one with its new Happy Meal for adults, which was test-marketed in Indiana last fall. How many steps should you rack up? The figure you see most often is 10,000 a day. That's a nice, round number, based on Japanese research showing that it improves fitness. But like so many one-size-fits-all solutions, those 10,000 steps may not all be necessary. "The number 10,000 has developed almost...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: 10,000 steps | 2/8/2004 | See Source »

...appropriate, by nonjudgmentally equating all sexual behavior. At one point, Friday writes that not thinking about bestiality when seeing a large animal is "like looking at a racing car and ignoring the thrill of speed." As far as heating up a marriage, this woman is the whole spice rack...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Behavior: Spicing It Up | 1/19/2004 | See Source »

...correct problems in high-powered telescopes. Wavefront Lasik uses 200 little lenses to map the cornea, taking into account all its bumps and abnormalities to produce a highly accurate, individualized prescription. Conventional Lasik, by contrast, applies one standard formula to each eye. If the old Lasik is off the rack, wavefront is a custom-fit procedure. Studies show that the new method reduces the occurrence of common postsurgical side effects, such as halos, glare and bad night vision. But the risks of eye surgery still apply. Cost...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Behavior: A to Z Guide | 1/19/2004 | See Source »

...appropriate, by nonjudgmentally equating all sexual behavior. At one point, Friday writes that not thinking about bestiality when seeing a large animal is "like looking at a racing car and ignoring the thrill of speed." As far as heating up a marriage, this woman is the whole spice rack...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Spicing It Up | 1/12/2004 | See Source »

...between the leaders of the island's two communities: Father Xavier Lunas, a Catholic priest, and Ghani, a Falstaffian hotelier and fish merchant. At the beginning of the novel, a wedding is being planned between a Muslim boy and a Christian girl. The social cataclysms that have begun to rack Indonesia are felt here only as faraway echoes, until a boatload of survivors of gruesome atrocities in strife-torn Ambon, the capital of Maluku, washes up on Noli's shores. Soon afterward, a gang of jihadist rabble-rousers arrives, with a mandate from sinister elements in the army to create...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Garden of Terror | 1/5/2004 | See Source »

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