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...ladies and opera go together, but rarely has so much weight been thrown around onstage as in Jerry Springer--The Opera. The musical version of the sleazoid TV talk show is filled with big people with big hair wailing about their big problems. A portly fellow with a luminous tenor confesses that he is cheating on his wife with a transsexual. A bridegroom-to-be strips off his clothes to reveal a diaper fetish. A sluttish young woman battles with her mother over her aspiration to become a pole dancer. Running commentary is provided by a studio audience...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The View from Abroad | 8/4/2003 | See Source »

...growing weight of such research has moved the American Heart Association to recommend that these foods be incorporated into heart-healthy diets. For similar reasons, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration now allows the labels on packages containing such nuts as walnuts, almonds, pecans, pistachios and peanuts to claim that they "may reduce the risk of heart disease." Statins will continue to be important, lifesaving drugs. But it's nice to know that you can get the same results without them...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Health: Nuts (And Fiber) To High Cholesterol | 8/4/2003 | See Source »

...work with the occupation authority, while demoralizing Baathist resistance fighters by eliminating two of their key political leaders and warning them that the capability of U.S. intelligence to detect Baathist leaders is growing. Equally important, it will provide an important morale-booster to U.S. troops straining under the weight of an often thankless mission...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: What the Hussein Brothers' Deaths Mean for Iraq | 7/22/2003 | See Source »

...understanding financial constraints and physical environments of many an overweight person makes former ignorant fat-people-haters like me more committed to finding viable weight loss and healthy lifestyle solutions for these kids...

Author: By Jasmine J. Mahmoud, | Title: A Wider Perspective | 7/18/2003 | See Source »

Dershowitz portrayed himself, by contrast, as a champion of calm evidence, saying the weight of the Dowd Report meant the jury would have to believe in “a vast, vast conspiracy” to conclude that Rose had not gambled on the Reds...

Author: By Simon W. Vozick-levinson, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Cable-Only Court Exonerates Pete Rose | 7/18/2003 | See Source »

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