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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...comfortably uses this woman's weight as a point of ridicule and a "fact" to disqualify her neediness. Hicks' snide confusion over an "obese beggar" demonstrates total ignorance about the nature of obesity and poverty. Hicks (an economics concentrator) is "missing something here." It's more expensive to be thin than fat in America today...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Letters | 10/4/1999 | See Source »

...polluted capital of Hunan. Peiji, who made his way to Taiwan with the retreating KMT, lives very unquietly in neon-struck Taipei. He is president of CTS, one of Taiwan's main TV networks. As boys they were indistinguishable. Now their faces tell very different stories: Peiyuan's face, thin and ravaged, is the story of a China that Mao wrought, with its famines, executions, and harsh labor camps. Peiji's face, fleshy and grinning, is the story of another China, a military dictatorship that became the industrious and democratic society of today's Taiwan...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: TWINS: Splintered for decades by China's violent revolution, a family comes back together | 10/4/1999 | See Source »

What next? Two scoops of "Smart Genes" in Kellogg's Raisin Bran? There is a thin line between medical achievements for neurological diseases and manipulating nature...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Oct. 4, 1999 | 10/4/1999 | See Source »

...successes that have the idea of a nuclear "umbrella" edging closer to approval by the Clinton administration. For TIME Pentagon correspondent Mark Thompson, it?s a dubious triumph of lowered expectations. "It?s not Reagan?s ?Star Wars,' which was space-based," he says. "This is the so-called ?thin shield,? which consists of a smaller amount of interceptors [100] from a single site, rather than a full umbrella. Technically, it?s easier to build, but it also wouldn?t defend against a full-scale assault...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: It Ain't 'Star Wars,' But It's Getting There | 10/4/1999 | See Source »

...knew the value and pain of an honest day's labor. All too ready to dismiss this as another whine-fest on my way in, I instead was caught up with the crowd in wildly applauding the willowy Dee Carstensen strumming her harp siren-style and wailing in a thin voice reminiscent of Sixpence None the Richer. But these women were no naifs. Cheryl Wheeler's crystal clear voice whispered and cried up and down the scales and gave slightly melodramatic lines like, "don't wonder why you left/wonder why you stayed so long" truly tragic depth...

Author: By Joyce M. Koh, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Livin' La Vida Folka in Boston | 10/1/1999 | See Source »

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