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...that prized demographic. The best way to do that, the director says, is not to dumb down Bond movies but to make them smarter. "A lot of action movies are very lame because they ask you to just accept them for what they are," he says. "Teenagers are far sharper than that--and they don't like to be insulted...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Movies: The Man With The Golden Run | 11/18/2002 | See Source »

...wear jewelry, makeup and billowing fabrics, to be "female but also strong and feminist." Sorenson says the style she teaches, Tribal Fusion, is "a dance of attitude, strength, beauty and the celebration of a woman's spirit." (Despite the emphasis on femininity, some men do belly dancing but with sharper, less rolling moves...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Shakin' All Over | 10/28/2002 | See Source »

...year-old Moose, who has been police chief in this Maryland suburb for three years, is known for his sharp eyes and even sharper tongue - and the latter was in plain view Wednesday when Moose blasted the news media for revealing "too much" information about the search for the killer, most notably details concerning a tarot card located near the middle school where a 13-year-old boy was shot. 'I have not received any message that the citizens?want Channel 9 or The Washington Post or any other media outlet to solve this case,'' Moose said. ''If they...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Person of the Week: Charles A. Moose | 10/10/2002 | See Source »

...shed sharper light on the problem, Cooper and King obtained the original X rays and took them to a medical examiner, a radiologist and a neurologist. The experts quickly spotted more clues. Abnormalities in the thin bones above Tut's eye sockets may be the kind of fractures that can occur when the head strikes the ground during a backward fall and the brain snaps forward. What's more, the vertebrae in Tut's neck were fused--a sign of a musculoskeletal malformation called Klippel-Feil syndrome. People with Klippel-Feil cannot turn their heads without moving the entire torso...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Archaeology: Who Killed King Tut? | 9/16/2002 | See Source »

...unlikely to do so. A formidable lineup of experts holds to the low-fat approach, none more tenaciously than Dr. Dean Ornish, whose regimen prescribes no more than 10% of daily calories from fat. With the latest resurgence of the Atkins program, the clash of the two theories is sharper than ever--low fat vs. low carbs, Ornish vs. Atkins. But here is what is new and somewhat startling: there are hints that Atkins may have struck a vein of truth--hints that are intriguing enough to convince some mainstream obesity experts that the approach merits more serious consideration...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cracking the Fat Riddle | 9/2/2002 | See Source »

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