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...preserving in its purest form the Greco-Roman worship of the body, have in some ways outstripped the Olympic athletes themselves. Good health is no longer, and hasn't been for some time now, an Olympic ideal. Performance trumps all. Between their indulgence in harrowing training regimens that warp young athletes' sexual development and the widespread use of drugs and supplements meant to induce short bursts of speed and power, a lot of today's would-be medallists might be regarded, in Mormon terms, as defiled and deficient. The bulked-up, souped-up Olympian may break world records...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Mormons and the Olympic Ideal | 2/1/2002 | See Source »

...magnesium, a metal lighter than aluminum. For a humble stacking chair it wasn't cheap--$700 and up--but Go has a lot going for it. The spindly silhouette by designer Ross Lovegrove has the glamour of liquid mercury. Just sitting, the thing looks like it's launching into warp drive. An overhyped one-season wonder? We think this chair has legs...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Best and Worst of 2001: Design | 12/24/2001 | See Source »

...magnesium, a metal lighter than aluminum. For a humble stacking chair it wasn't cheap - $700 and up - but Go has a lot going for it. The spindly silhouette by designer Ross Lovegrove has the glamour of liquid mercury. Just sitting, the thing looks like it's launching into warp drive. An overhyped one-season wonder? We think this chair has legs...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Design | 12/24/2001 | See Source »

...from a threat to break up the government. Milosevic will face charges in an international court for crimes committed while in office--only nine months after he stepped down. "In the annals of international justice," said David Scheffer, former U.S. ambassador-at-large for war-crimes issues, "this is warp speed...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Long Walk To Justice | 7/9/2001 | See Source »

...rerun of Bewitched, adding a box of SnackWell's cookies in the 1960s kitchen of Samantha and Darrin's nosy neighbors, the Kravitzes. "It absolutely fit in," he marvels. "They would be the sort of people who would eat SnackWell's." Samantha will always be in her time warp. But there's nothing to keep Madison Avenue from twitching its nose and doing a little hocus-pocus...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Television: This Plug's For You | 6/18/2001 | See Source »

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