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"I see it all the time, every day. 'I can only have three pieces of broccoli and a spoonful of cottage cheese. How about you?" she says. "Who can be the most disciplined in their eating?"

Author: By Rebecca M. Wand, | Title: At Harvard, Eating Disorders Common | 11/4/1994 | See Source »

MARY POPPINS THOUGHT A SPOONFUL OF SUGAR made the medicine go down. Congress, though, insists on holding the sugar and swallowing a spoonful of deficit- cutting medicine first. The Clinton Administration had wanted the lawmakers to approve by mid-March about $16 billion in immediate additional expenditures in order to...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Hold That Sugar! | 3/8/1993 | See Source »

Occasionally, The Art of Celebration becomes a bit precious, like when Appel asks, "Do the people who collect classic modern plates ever actually use them? Does one's use of the rhetorical question and the impersonal pronoun disguise one's uneasiness with the subject, a fear of sounding effete about...

Author: By J.c. Herz, | Title: Celebrating the Joy of Modern Arts | 10/15/1992 | See Source »

8:15 a.m. A Somali nurse dressed in white coat and rubber sandals picks his way through the crowd to weed out the youngest, most desperate cases. Gathering them together in another part of the compound, he feeds each one a spoonful of antidiarrhea medicine from a rusty thermos bottle...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Africa: A Day in the Death of Somalia | 9/21/1992 | See Source »

But what's the Salt Lake City-East Coast connection? What is it about young female Utahans? Can they sing "A Spoonful of Sugar," too?

Author: By Molly B. Confer, | Title: Mary Poppins Goes Slam Dancing | 4/16/1992 | See Source »

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