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...lifestyle. The trouble is that our bodies are being fattened along with our wallets. On the other hand, some women are starving themselves to attain hourglass figures and in the process are getting sick from poor nutrition. If that trend goes on, Indian females may soon be nothing but skin and bones. Jagmohan Rathi Ghaziabad, India...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters | 11/29/2004 | See Source »

...Nurdin and 13 other sailors steered the ship to the virtually unregulated waters around Batam, he says. Within hours, the cargo of diesel oil was unloaded and the 1,249-ton tanker repainted, renamed and on its way to a broker. Sometimes, Nurdin continues, his clients want only the "skin," which means just the vessel, of a certain size, length and capacity, while at other times it's only the "guts"?the cargo. "When the big boss only wants the skin, we'll try to find a vessel with no cargo, but if he wants just the guts...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Dire Straits | 11/29/2004 | See Source »

Tired of scratched CDs and DVDs that don't play anymore? d_skin is a clear plastic coating that you can put over a disc to protect it. You leave the cover on all the time, even when you play the disc. The laser from the player simply passes through the cover to read the data it needs. And because the d_skin is so thin--it measures just twothousandths of an inch--it will work with any player...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Coolest Inventions 2004: Cutting Edge | 11/29/2004 | See Source »

INVENTOR d_skin...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Coolest Inventions 2004: Cutting Edge | 11/29/2004 | See Source »

...halted so all participants could be given the combo drug treatment, called BiDil. But the study couldn't answer whether BiDil might benefit other patients and, more broadly, what genetic variations really matter in shaping the course of disease. What we do know is that superficial differences like skin color explain far less than was once thought...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Health: Are Drugs Color Blind? | 11/22/2004 | See Source »

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