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FUELING THE PURGE URGE? Fashion magazines seem to get blamed for reinforcing eating-disorder tendencies in teenage girls. Now a study by researchers at Brigham Young University suggests that hyper-thin supermodels are not solely to blame. Teens who took laxatives or diet pills, went on severe diets or forced themselves to throw up, researchers found, were also more likely to be frequent readers of health and fitness magazines. Go figure...
...early 1970s but found his work banned. Undeterred, he donned a frowzy dress and created his famous alter ego, Evita Bezuidenhout, the saccharine-sweet wife of a conservative politician - and used her character to lampoon apartheid's absurdities in farces like Adapt or Dye and Skating on Thin Uys. His Evita not only escaped the censors - she soon had the nation eating out of her well-manicured hand. After the end of apartheid, Uys found plenty to satirize in the new "designer democracy." In 1995, he was back onstage with You ANC Nothing Yet, followed by Truth Omissions...
WILTON, N.Y.—Thin, muscular and about 45, Gary always wears tight jeans and a cowboy hat. He addresses me as “pretty lady,” as in “thank you, pretty lady,” when I bring him black coffee and half a toasted banana nut muffin every morning...
...square. Trafalgar's pigeons are so tame they would eat from children's hands?if children were clever enough to avoid the watchful patrolmen. One group has: the Pigeon Alliance. Week after week, a grandmotherly woman marches through the square with a bulging shoulder bag. From it pours a thin golden stream of corn. Her payload deposited, the lady scurries away to meet co-conspirator June?she doesn't want her full name revealed?at a white Volkswagon parked a block distant. Now it's June's turn to do the surreptitious feeding (pictured above). "They've been here...
...across Asia, risk awareness is thin, and no pan-Asian transport body exists to call for precautionary measures, as the European Commission did in January. During the Haj season when tens of thousands go to Mecca, Pakistan International Airways routinely refits aircraft to shoehorn in as many seats as possible. In China, Li Ru, spokeswoman for Air China, puts her faith in passenger size. "We are shorter and smaller than Westerners, so we're less uncomfortable in airplane seats," she says. For those airlines that are taking action, the mood is aggressively defensive. Following the WHO conference, the Association...