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...summer afternoon, Xu is wearing a shirt emblazoned with a Barbie doll, and her hands are covered with calluses and blisters. "Weight lifting isn't too much fun, but it's my job," she says. "My coach tells me that no matter how many times you fail, if you succeed once, that's good enough." Watching Xu shuffle up to the barbell, rub chalk onto her torn hands and clean-and-jerk 40 kg above her 33-kg body, Lin Zhiyi, a former swimmer and current Weilun administrator, shakes his head. "Weight lifting is terrible for these girls' bodies, especially...
...their hips, thighs and derriere. (Men tend not to suffer from this perceived problem because their thicker skin does a better job of covering fat.) Women have resorted to surgery, massage, potions, pills and creams to smooth their skin, resulting in temporary relief at best. So can clothing succeed where more extreme efforts have failed...
Finally, while the real world may be plagued with disappointment or failure, my cartoon heroes always succeed in overcoming the life-threatening burdens placed before them...
...representing Hollywood doesn't sound like a natural for a former Secretary of Agriculture. But Dan Glickman, who also served as a nine-term Congressman from Kansas, is the man the Motion Picture Association of America (MPAA) has tapped to succeed the inimitable Jack Valenti as its president. TIME's Sonja Steptoe quizzed him about his new role...
...recall her country's troops a month before they were scheduled to leave, and may have saved De la Cruz, 46, a father of eight. But she damaged relations with Washington and may well have encouraged more kidnapping of foreign nationals. "This kind of action cannot be allowed to succeed anywhere in the 21st century, above all not Iraq," chided U.S. Secretary of State Colin Powell. Why did Arroyo negotiate with the terrorists? Arroyo's own presidency may have been at stake - just weeks after she won re-election. After De la Cruz was kidnapped, protests and prayer vigils calling...