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...year-old softball players. Until now. Yes, the classic aluminum beauties are back. Kitschy slogans and retro cartoons decorate the small, round pins that reign again on the streets of fashion-conscious England and Holland. But no country has embraced the retro buttons?and their message of '80s-style youthful exuberance?as completely as Japan. Tokyoites have flocked to purchase kanbacchi, sporting their own distinctive anthems on their identical denim jacket lapels. Wait till they rediscover thin, leather neck ties...
...says Leslie Brenner, author of American Appetites. But when nouvelle cuisine swept American metropolises, it carried along its strong Japanese component. When raw fish first appeared on West Coast plates, "it grossed people out," says Brenner. "Americans didn't eat tuna except out of a can before the '80s. Japanese food changed our relationship with fish...
...White's office has even talked with some who were not so lucky in Clinton's final days, including Michael Milken, the junk-bond pioneer of the high-flying '80s. Milken's patron on the pardon front was Ron Burkle, a generous Democratic donor, but as soon as it became known that Milken, who served nearly two years in prison and paid more than $1 billion in connection with his conviction on six counts of securities fraud, was on the list of potential clemency recipients, loud protests from securities regulators and others apparently doomed the effort. White is presumably trying...
Just a few years back, the idea that gray-haired folks could build up lost bone and muscle strength by pumping iron was unheard of. Yet several landmark studies done at Tufts University in the late '80s and mid-'90s revealed that seniors had the most to gain from such activity. A particularly astounding 1995 study by Maria Fiatarone, overseen by Evans, showed that with a high-intensity regimen, even the oldest and frailest nursing-home residents, ages 86 to 96, tripled their muscle strength and greatly improved their balance and flexibility. All performed everyday tasks, like opening jars...
...What ever happened to the quiet riot? Or was that just an '80s metal band...