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...Considered in combination with the movie, it offers an image of contemporary middle-class teenagers that differs widely from the image presented in the teen movies and music of the '80s and much of the '90s. For like the movie that brought them together, its songs are almost all textbook studies in what might be termed the New Teen Hybridity...
...gadgets get you off the couch and on the floor, that's progress. But don't expect a few minutes' exercise to transform your midriff. Alicia Calaway, 33, the personal trainer from Manhattan whose textbook anatomy wowed millions of viewers of Survivor: The Australian Outback, tries to work out 1 1/2 hours a day, five days a week, to maintain her physique. Strangers still ask her to lift her shirt for an ab peep show, she says. "My abs are so popular at this point, I'm thinking about putting out a video to teach people what I know...
...save. With the Fed cutting rates, this is a borrower?s market, not a lender?s, and besides it seems a little unpatriotic to do something contrarian like put it in a 30-year Treasury Note (thus discouraging national-debt repayment) so my unborn heir can buy some $450 textbook at college in 25 years...
...JAPAN A History of History Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi said his government would make no revisions to history textbooks in response to charges of inaccuracy. China and South Korea have both demanded extensive changes to a textbook, approved by Tokyo this year, which Beijing says "advocates imperialism and whitewashes Japan's history of aggression." Seoul objected to the book's justification of Japan's 1910-45 occupation of the Korean peninsula and demanded that 35 passages be revised. Tokyo argues that the book, to be prescribed next year for children aged 13 to 15, was approved by an education commission...
...mail from a 14-year-old Ontario girl: "School is great, and so is studying, but sometimes when I'm working inside on a beautiful day I almost start to cry. I hope I don't wake up some day to find I spent my entire childhood behind a textbook...