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...Accompanying Chávez to the mud hut where he was born, Stone directs the President in a scene: ride around the yard on the bicycle you had as a kid. Chávez mounts the tiny bike and takes a few pedals. Instantly it breaks from his weight, and Chávez dissolves in laughter...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: South of the Border: Chávez and Stone's Love Story | 9/8/2009 | See Source »

...Before the game, [Akpan] put a lot of pressure on me,” Rogers said. “He said, ‘This is the first step to breaking all my records.’ So it was a big weight off all my shoulders when I saw that ball...

Author: By Jay M. Cohen, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Harvard Rides Offensive Outburst to Victory over Stony Brook | 9/8/2009 | See Source »

...slipcovers on the furniture. "Not only was there no air-conditioning, but people did not go around in T shirts and halter tops. They wore what we would now consider fairly formal clothes," says Judith Martin, better known as etiquette columnist Miss Manners. "And white is of a lighter weight." (See pictures of the fashion looks of Sarah Palin...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Why We Can't Wear White After Labor Day | 9/8/2009 | See Source »

Having read your article while at the gym, I have to say I felt disheartened. While I enjoy exercise and understand its benefits, I can imagine that anyone who exercises purely for weight loss or maintenance would have found in your article a strong incentive to give up. Who knows what health problems they could have prevented by continuing to exercise? Caitriona McPartlin, DUBLIN...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Of Crunches and Lunches | 9/7/2009 | See Source »

...preconceptions of Iran than any sort of reality on the ground. The truth is that postrevolutionary schooling in the Islamic Republic has not gone according to plan. The country's public schools face many of the same challenges as U.S. schools: a largely urban school system sagging under the weight of a too-large student population (two- and three-shift schools are not uncommon), poorly paid and demoralized teachers constrained by a highly centralized curriculum, and the destruction of academic creativity under a ever-stringent testing regime. Schools are failing, both ideologically and academically...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Back to School in Iran: How to Deal with a Bad Summer | 9/7/2009 | See Source »

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