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...depressed for awhile, so I tried to look at it as positively as I could,” he says. “I thought I had a lot of time to get in shape for baseball, work on my swing...

Author: By Pablo S. Torre, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: BASEBALL 2005: The Book of Klimkiewicz | 4/8/2005 | See Source »

DIED. ANDREW TOTI, 89, whose invention, the Mae West inflatable flotation vest (so dubbed by wearers who likened its shape to the chesty film star), saved many downed Allied pilots in World War II, among them George H.W. Bush, who later thanked Toti publicly; in Modesto, Calif...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones Apr. 11, 2005 | 4/3/2005 | See Source »

...Still, the post-election scenario leaves Washington with no formal levers to influence Iraqi politics. As long as it remained the formal occupying power, it held the ring for the competition between rival Iraqi factions. Now, nobody really holds the ring, and the contest to shape post-Saddam Iraq is more wide-open than ever. The election has not resolved the basic political conflicts among Iraqis, but it has turned the current U.S.-appointed government into a lame duck and has diminished U.S. influence over the next...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Power Vacuum in Iraq? | 3/29/2005 | See Source »

...dance may have an even bigger appeal for women who are not die-hard workout aficionadas. It's one of the few dance or exercise disciplines in which a few extra pounds around the middle aren't a problem. The traditional belly dancer has ample hips and a voluptuous shape, and many students like the fact that the teachers, while fit, look more womanly than the typical hard-body fitness instructor. "Many fuller-figured women are afraid to go to aerobics classes because they're getting laughed at," says Sohaila, a teacher in San Diego whose real name is JoEllen...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Body & Mind: Belly-Dance Boom | 3/27/2005 | See Source »

...mother so unhappy? Why, after 20 years of marriage, is Jessie suddenly stepping out with a hunky monk? And can doubting Thomas choose between Jessie and his final monastic vows? Secret Life revolved around an icon, a black Madonna. This time it's a chair carved in the shape of a mermaid, a symbol of our spiritually amphibious nature, of the inner depths to which we must descend before we can solve the problems of our placid surface existence...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Sex and the Sacred | 3/27/2005 | See Source »

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