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Frequency of visits to wellness sites wax and wane according to the typical seasonal dieting pattern: there's a massive spike in the first week of January (usually lasting about five days after New Year's), followed by a trudging decline toward the nadir of wellness interest on Thanksgiving Day. Over the last two years, however, there's been an unseasonable bump in mid-September, a surge of interest online that coincides with the launch of the new fall TV line-up - including the premiere of NBC's hit reality show, The Biggest Loser, which pits teams of overweight contestants...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Watch Television, Lose Weight? | 9/19/2007 | See Source »

...states that-in the absence of federal action-have moved to restrict CO2 emissions. Gore wasn't declaring victory. "I feel like the country singer who spends 30 years on the road to become an overnight sensation," he said with a smile. "And I've seen public interest wax and wane before-but this time does feel different...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Last Temptation of Al Gore | 5/16/2007 | See Source »

...Dupuy, giving a tour of LVT's large facility in Malakoff, a Paris suburb, explains the process of laser engraving pioneered by the company in 1988 that burns translucent holes through the film's coating. Previously, subtitles were the result of applying a protective coating of paraffin wax, then stamping the words onto each frame in a zinc strip. This was followed by a bleach bath that dissolved away all parts of the emulsion not protected by the paraffin (the zinc-stamped subtitles), leaving the words in white on each frame. It was an unreliable, error-prone process...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Rethinking the Art of Subtitles | 5/15/2007 | See Source »

...sealing wax on that epistle was still hardening when Smith assembled his fellow colonists for a reading of the proverbial riot act. "The greater part must be more industrious or starve," Smith decreed. "He that will not work, shall not eat." Not too surprisingly, productivity soared. Anglo-American relations played to a draw. Strains were briefly managed, tensions largely contained. What followed, though, was a long and tortuous series of missed opportunities, conflict and outright betrayal that set Smith and Powhatan on a collision course. When the old chief got word that Smith had sacked yet another village and made...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Captain John Smith | 4/26/2007 | See Source »

This box, sealed with ribbon and wax, contains medical records and witness testimony that details how a French nun was cured of Parkinson's disease after she prayed to Pope John Paul...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Artifact: Beatification Box | 4/5/2007 | See Source »

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