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...Before considering any diagnostic tests, I decided to revisit Dylan's dietary history. When asked just how picky an eater Dylan was, his mom rolled her eyes and said, "This child lives on jelly sandwiches and iced tea." How much iced tea? "Well, a glass with breakfast, a glass or two when he gets home from school and then a couple of more glasses at dinner." What does he drink at lunch? "Chocolate milk." By my count, Dylan was consuming well over 400 mg of caffeine each day. Although the U.S. hasn't yet developed guidelines for caffeine intake...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: When a Headache Isn't Just a Headache | 6/15/2006 | See Source »

Taking the American Orient Express's Great Transcontinental Rail Journey was the perfect trip for Allan Geddes, 76. Geddes and his late wife Shirley had always done things "top of the line," according to their son John, 49, a glass designer in Fort Lauderdale, Fla. What's more, railroading had always been Allan's passion, from putting together the tabletop track and cars John played with as a boy to accumulating a wealth of big-engine lore. On a 10-day rail tour from Los Angeles to Savannah, Ga., which included stops at the Grand Canyon and New Orleans, father...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Tripping with Parents | 6/11/2006 | See Source »

...your hair is too long or your skirt is too short or your kids are slobs, you get into it. You get riled. You might even call her a bitch. When the vein throbs in my neck about something my mother does or says, I pour myself a little glass of Cabernet Sauvignon, and I sit down, and I feel very blessed that I have...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Tie That Binds | 6/11/2006 | See Source »

Jean Nouvel is standing in midair with his arms held high. O.K., he's not really in midair. He's standing on a window. Well, not exactly a window. It's a 5-ft. by 10-ft. plate of glass that's set into the floor of a long corridor of his new Guthrie Theater in Minneapolis, Minn. It's the corridor that's in midair. Actually, it's not simply a corridor. It's more a kind of covered bridge to nowhere that cantilevers 178 ft. across and 60 ft. above the city's West River Parkway. And then...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Architecture: Curtain Up! | 6/11/2006 | See Source »

...instance, is set in a deep recess of mirrored stainless steel. Look up and you see, reflected in the upper panel, the cars on the roadway beneath you. Look down and the lower panel reflects the sky. Up, earth; down, sky. His Cartier Foundation in Paris is a glass-walled structure with a freestanding glass wall situated a few yards in front of it. The effect is to create multiple veils of transparency in which the building seems to dematerialize...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Architecture: Curtain Up! | 6/11/2006 | See Source »

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