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...defined as obese if they are 20% or more above the recommended weight for their height and age - has doubled from 6% to 12% over the past decade. But the increase in obese students from Laventie and neighboring Fleurbaix, where the nutrition program also runs, has been an ultraslim 1%, one of the lowest rates in the country. Families, too, benefit, as children teach their parents what a healthy, well-balanced meal looks like. "When I go with my children to shop at the supermarket my daughter will look at the label and advise me what...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Is For Apple | 5/22/2005 | See Source »

...longer has to follow function for a product to be profitable. Carmakers like Toyota can afford to gamble on a quirky-looking car like the new Echo, jam it with extras and sell it for less than $10,500. Sony miraculously rescued its personal-computer business by introducing the ultraslim Vaio, a silver-and-purple machine that, when you come right down to it, does little more than any other laptop; it just looks and feels a lot better...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Redesigning Of America | 3/20/2000 | See Source »

...infamous resolution equating Zionism with racism. (Years later, it was repealed.) As President, the ex-general worked to broker rifts in coalition Cabinets, isolate some extremists and push for voting reforms. DIED. GERALD PIAGET, 79, style-conscious co-founder of the family watchmaking firm famed for its ultraslim, ultraexpensive timepieces for women; in Areuse, Switzerland...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones Apr. 28, 1997 | 4/28/1997 | See Source »

Burton knows that moviegoers, just like the Penguin, need their oversize playthings. So he and production designer Bo Welch provided toys for the kids. The new-model Batmobile can get ultraslim (fast!) and slip through the narrowest crevice. The Penguin's parasol becomes an Umbrella-Copter, spiriting him out of the trouble he loves to make. At the end he sends his commando squadron of penguins to destroy the city: tuxedoed birds wearing embossed shields, tiny helmets and missiles with candy-cane stripes ( it is Christmas) on their backs. Some of the penguins were real, some were robot puppets, some...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Battier and Better | 6/22/1992 | See Source »

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