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...best thing that ever happened since the wheel," said Randy Deaton, 32, a Michigan hotel manager. "I switched to water when they stopped making the old Coke." Exclaimed Gail Hilty, 16, a senior at Redwood High School in Larkspur, Calif.: "Thank God! I don't like the new stuff at all. Nobody likes it--at least nobody that I know." On Staten Island, N.Y., Tracy Collica, 11, and Michael, 8, feed their two-year-old brother Larry both kinds of Coke and are certain that he prefers the old. Said Michael: "He can tell the difference. He makes a face...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Coca-Cola's Big Fizzle | 4/12/2005 | See Source »

...career is a bit like learning that the blond pop siren streaks her hair. Not exactly shattering news. Even so, there was the Material Girl without a stitch of material last week in not one but two flesh magazines, Playboy and Penthouse. The pictures are unremarkable art school stuff, black-and-white studies of Madonna reclining on couches and sitting on windowsills. The real pleasure came from watching Playboy and Penthouse trade taunts in an old-fashioned newsstand...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Like a Pinup: Navel battle of the newsstands | 4/12/2005 | See Source »

...shot down 13 German aircraft in World War II (five in one day) and went on to become the first man to fly faster than the speed of sound and live. His legendary career as a test pilot and hell raiser was sketched in Tom Wolfe's The Right Stuff. Played by Sam Shepard in the movie, Yeager inspired the film's strongest image: the sooty phoenix emerging from the desert after bailing out of his burning plane. Now 62, the real Yeager stars in auto-parts commercials as a persuasive...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Breaking the Celebrity Barrier: YEAGER | 4/12/2005 | See Source »

...ultimate field trip," remarked Sharon Christa McAuliffe, who had just been chosen to be the first teacher to voyage into space. "It's not often that a teacher is at a loss for words," she said after Vice President George Bush pronounced her "the teacher with the right stuff." A field of 10,000 applicants for a seat aboard the space shuttle Challenger was narrowed to ten educators, who apparently became a close-knit group during testing early this month in Houston. "When that shuttle goes, there may be one body," said McAuliffe, choking up, "but there are ten souls...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: Jul. 29, 1985 | 4/12/2005 | See Source »

...acts were very well-balanced—some funny stuff and some poignant stuff,” he said...

Author: By Candice N. Plotkin, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Lowell Hosts Southeast Asian Banquet | 4/11/2005 | See Source »

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