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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...aside the data for a moment and take a walk on any American beach. Casually, discreetly, observe the flesh (this is not a gender thing; we're talking every last, ever loving body on the sand). Now, don't you think that last summer, or the summer before, or especially back in the '80s, there were fewer paunches out there that jiggled like flan? And didn't we just go through a spell where the buttocks seemed hitched to a spot just a notch or two higher up the spine...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Couch Potatoes, Arise! | 8/9/1993 | See Source »

Saying no to guns is still easy for any self-respecting teenager with a little sense, but dealing with guys who do have guns is an excruciating business. Steve, 14, stopped walking home alone from school last year when many of his fellow seventh-graders at Hale Junior High started talking up guns. "Some guys just started to change. It became cool to say you could get a gun," he says. "Nobody messes with you if they even think you may have a gun." Polite, clean-cut and still displaying the awkwardness of adolescence, Steve says he lives in almost...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Boy and His Gun | 8/2/1993 | See Source »

...recalls a conversation a week earlier when Foster said, "No one back in Little Rock could know how hard this is." Purvis remembers Foster's description of his days. "You try to be at work by 7 in the morning and sometimes it's 10 at night when you walk out just dog-tired. About the time you're thinking 'What a load,' you turn around and see the White House lit up, and the awe of where you are and what you're doing hits you. It makes you realize it's worth...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Where Hope Ends | 8/2/1993 | See Source »

Bamberger says the walk also goes against the conventional wisdom that the early days of a campaign should be used to raise money. In spite of the time consumed by this unusual method of campaigning. Barrett has already raised $2,50,000, Bamberger says...

Author: By Joe Mathews, | Title: Barrett, Campaigning For Governor, Begins Foot Trek Across Mass. | 7/23/1993 | See Source »

...walk is worth the time spent, Bamberger says, because it has led the campaign to places where politicians often cannot...

Author: By Joe Mathews, | Title: Barrett, Campaigning For Governor, Begins Foot Trek Across Mass. | 7/23/1993 | See Source »

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