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...answer that question, New York Times education reporter Jacques Steinberg spent a year observing the selection process at Wesleyan University in Middletown, Conn. The result is his new book, The Gatekeepers: Inside the Admissions Process of a Premier College (Viking). Steinberg talks with TIME about the dos and don'ts of getting kids into the school of their choice...
...instead to eat differently for the rest of their lives. Dr. Robert Atkins, a modishly dressed Manhattan physician who operates out of a plush East Side office, believes that overweight is the result of the body's inability to metabolize carbohydrates properly. He allows his patients such dietary don'ts as mayonnaise and heavy cream, butter, steaks and lobster, but limits them to a maximum of 40 grams of carbohydrates daily. Dr. Charles Roland of the Mayo Clinic says that "despite Atkins' sweeping generalizations and exuberant confidence, his thesis rests largely on unproven assumptions." --TIME...
...busy trying to unload our WorldCom shares. So don't feel foolish if you have been whacked. A lot of "smart money" has too. And there's plenty you can do to minimize your odds of owning the next disaster. Here are my dos and don'ts...
...Glamour are something of a guilty pleasure. I tell myself that reading them does nothing to my self-esteem; I’m a confident, healthy young woman who has better things to do than measure her waistline or weekend planner by the monthly dos and don’ts page. I find the advice absurd and the trends contradictory from one issue to another. Writing this column has allowed me to scrutinize this harmless habit of mine until it has come to seem a bit harmful. Each column has been my attempt to wrestle the hysteria of beauty...
...suppose it wouldn’t be fair for me to include specific pet peeves like my absolute distaste for Penelope Cruz ads or anything having to do with feminine hygiene in this general list of dos and don’ts. Instead, I’ll end with a final don’t that irks me most of all: the botched make-over. Correct me if I’m wrong, but make-overs are supposedto make the person being transformed better than they were at the outset. I feel like some stylists forget this important fact...