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...hours the 43rd president of the United States paced back and forth in front of a stone fireplace, his torso swimming inside a deep blue fleece sweatshirt with the presidential seal on the front and the number "43" on the back...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: An Intervention at Camp David | 6/6/2001 | See Source »

...fact, this duck-size relative of Tyrannosaurus rex, dating from 124 million to 147 million years ago, has no fewer than three different types of feathers. The head sports a thick, fuzzy mat of short, hollow fibers ("like a butch cut," says Prum), while the shoulders and torso have plumelike "sprays" of extremely thin fibers up to 2 in. long. The backs of its arms and legs, meanwhile, are draped in multiple filaments arranged in a classic herringbone pattern around a central stem. Even the tail is covered with feathers, with a fan, or tuft, at the end. "It doesn...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Down-Covered Dinosaur | 5/7/2001 | See Source »

...most effective arrangements, created by Susan Kaplan of the Beth Shalom Garden Club, three thick, pitch-black palm spades interspersed with pink bird-of-paradise form a sharp, pyramid-like construction. The angles echo the shape of Alexander Archipenko’s sculpture “Turning Torso,” a simple abstracted nude in blue bronze...

Author: By Maria-helene V. Wagenberg, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: April Showers Bring MFA Flowers | 5/4/2001 | See Source »

...Thais call yaba (mad medicine), and she has become irritable and potentially violent. Jacky's cheeks are sunken, her skin pockmarked and her hair an unruly explosion of varying strands of red and brown. She is tall and skinny, and her arms and legs extend out from her narrow torso with its slightly protuberant belly like the appendages of a spider shortchanged on legs...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Speed Demons | 4/2/2001 | See Source »

...medicine), and she has become agitated and irritable and potentially violent. Jacky's cheeks are sunken, her skin is pockmarked and her hair is an unruly explosion of varying strands of red and brown. She is tall and skinny and her arms and legs extend out from her narrow torso with its slightly protuberant belly almost like the appendages of a spider who got shortchanged on legs...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Need for Speed | 3/4/2001 | See Source »

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