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GETTING THE SKINNY AT MICKEY D'S Ever wonder how many calories are in a Big Mac? In a new effort to cast itself as a health-conscious company, McDonald's has promised to put nutritional information--calories, fat, protein, carbohydrates--right on the packaging of all its products. The new wrappers will arrive in early 2006. And that Big Mac? It has 560 calories...
...nine-year march culminating in the Civil Rights Act of 1964, which forced red states to comply with the Brown v. Board of Education decision rendered a decade earlier. Her righteous indignation literally changed the world. Long before the Internet, the mother of the civil rights movement cast her global net from the long walk to freedom of Nelson Mandela and black South Africans to the temerity of Chinese students who, against tanks at Tiananmen Square, dared to challenge unjust government policies. Mrs. Parks, who died last week at age 92, was never driven by any political agenda...
...that's what's been going on at Leavesden for the past five years. When Daniel Radcliffe was cast as Harry (after a small part in The Tailor of Panama), he was only 11. Emma Watson (who plays nerd-girl Hermione Granger) was 10; Rupert Grint (Potter pal Ron Weasley), almost 12. Now, with Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire set to open in two weeks, they've spent a third of their lives making movies. They've gone from children to teenagers entirely within the weird, closed bubble of the Potterverse...
...actor Carl Reiner, 83. He turns up to support her at all her performances, standing at the back of the room where she can see him. One of their three children is actor-director Rob Reiner. He gave the world a taste of his mom's sassiness when he cast her as the restaurant customer who famously requests, "I'll have what she's having," following Meg Ryan's fake orgasm in 1989's When Harry Met Sally...
Since becoming the editor of TIME in 2001, I've considered it a crucial part of TIME's mandate to cast its commanding spotlight on problems that transcend borders, whether they be disease, poverty, genocide or global warming. These are not topics that make for easy conversation at the dinner table, but it is a conversation we must have with one another if we are to leave our children--and their children--a world worth living...