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...appears to be holding up well so far. Since suffering a mild heart attack in November, Cheney has been working out for half an hour every morning on a treadmill and an elliptical trainer--one part cross-country ski machine, one part stair climber. The Veep's cardiologist, Jonathan Reiner, says Cheney is "doing great, doing all the right things, looking great." That means sacrifice. Cheney, an able chef who is known for preparing grilled meats, beef stew and spaghetti--and for tucking into roast beef sandwiches, ribs and bratwurst on the campaign trail--seems to have trimmed...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Bye, Bye, Rib Eye | 2/12/2001 | See Source »

Virtually all of this enchanting novel takes place in or around a Bombay apartment house where Vishnu, the tenants' drunken factotum, lies in his appointed sleeping place on a stair landing either dying or perhaps already dead. The two Hindu families on the first floor, the Asranis and the Pathaks, squabble over who will pay for the ambulance to cart poor, unsightly Vishnu away...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Seven New Voices | 2/12/2001 | See Source »

...this category is the secret upstairs room of the Lowell House library, accessible through a very steep metal stair at the back of the copy room (light switch at the top). The room contains a wonderfully arranged collection of everything from Wittgenstein and the Gitas to early American treatises on expansion, character...

Author: By Maryanthe E. Malliaris, | Title: Sense of Place | 12/4/2000 | See Source »

...greatest hardship for this fiercely independent man was becoming totally reliant on others. He needed Debbie to help him shower and dress, to bring him food. A stair glide was installed to enable him to go downstairs during the day, but he needed her assistance to hobble over to it and climb on. Debbie rarely left the house except to drive Dan to his medical appointments. In the last weeks before her husband died, she acknowledged without resentment that "I don't have a life. Everything revolves around...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Five Stories: In Their Last Days On This Earth | 9/18/2000 | See Source »

Simulation need not be noisy. On the grounds of the J. Paul Getty Center in Los Angeles, a beautiful stream stair-steps down the garden. Man-made, it is a symbol of how willing we are to substitute our natural environment for a world of our making, of our own image, but not without huge consequences...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Will Low Tech Replace High Tech? | 6/19/2000 | See Source »

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