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...loss program fully, and finding a way around the daily obstacles to exercising - that's something he says many of his participants were able to achieve, regardless of their socioeconomic group. So, if you're aiming to lose weight and keep it off, his message is clear: don't slack...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Myth of Moderate Exercise | 7/28/2008 | See Source »

...Jamshed, who uses only one name, and runs one of three rival KFCs. Jamshed's recipe for success includes more than just a secret combination of herbs and spices. Young men are drawn like flies to the music videos blasting out of his store's open doors; the slack-jawed patrons watching Shakira, onscreen, writhing while covered alternately in mud, men, and nothing are sampling a bite-size package of Western decadence...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A KFC to Give the Colonel Indigestion | 7/17/2008 | See Source »

...constantly borrow one another's sermons, usually without crediting them. Megapastor Rick Warren built up much of his "Purpose-Driven" organizational base by putting his sermons up on the web so that others could use them. One of the reasons that Martin Luther King Jr. was granted so much slack after it was discovered that he had plagiarized some of his doctoral thesis (apart from the fact that he was one of the greatest humans our country has produced) was the tacit understanding that when clergymen or pious laypeople write, sing or speak...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Who Owns That Prayer? | 7/11/2008 | See Source »

Then the writers' strike hit. Season 4, which debuted to fans' and critics' raves, had to pause after eight episodes and cut two of its planned hours. Disaster, right? Wrong. Early seasons of Lost tended to get slack and digressive in the middle. At nearly half the length of previous seasons, this one couldn't afford to. It was focused and propulsive, hurtling the action forward on the island (where the survivors have been found by "rescuers" of murderous intent) while revealing new dimensions to the characters in the flash-forwards to the future (where we learn that six castaways...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Less Lost Is More | 5/22/2008 | See Source »

...much on mainstream radio or TV or anything like that. You’ve got to find places like that where you can buy it and then spread it.” The aisles were packed with music fans of all genres. Pierced, grimy punks stood next to snarky, slack-eyed hipsters with proletariat caps and t-shirts with ironic slogans. One of these half-boasted, “I <3’d Ben Folds Before He Sucked.”While Viglione bobbed, jester-like, amidst shoppers and fans, Palmer sat in silence behind the counter amid...

Author: By Ryan J. Meehan, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Record Day in the Square | 4/25/2008 | See Source »

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