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...hitch there had to be a plan for seeing them separately, at P.L.O. headquarters in Tunis and in Jerusalem. How in the world would all TIME's party -- including the correspondents who cover these leaders, as well as photographer Gregory Heisler, his two assistants and their 350 lbs. of equipment -- ever make it to the right place on time on short notice? The answer was expensive but simple: a chartered jet. Attinger found an eight-seater in London, and she had it flown to Oslo. Next morning Mandela made good on the interview, starting...
...effectiveness of the model is evident when Farmer does checkups on AIDS patients after their first few weeks on ARVs. Hadija, 11, pretty in a pink dress, has gained nearly 7 lbs.; she shyly admits that her diarrhea has cleared up. Clementine, 35, a genocide widow with two children, has gained 9 lbs. but complains that pain from shingles makes it hard for her to work. Damascene, 14, has put on an astonishing 22 lbs., but Farmer senses that something's wrong; the boy's belly is distended with fluid. He gives the accompagnateur 2,000 francs (about...
...Valley Center, Calif., which gets more than 10,000 visitors on weekends in October, doesn't actually grow any nut trees but sells more than a dozen varieties of nuts that it buys from around the world. The farm does grow 15 acres of "Big Mac" pumpkins weighing 50 lbs. or more, but owner Tom Ness admits that 60% of the pumpkins he sells are shipped in from other growers. "It kind of bums me out that they didn't grow all their own pumpkins," says Georgia Zarifes, 39, who showed up with friends for the homemade fudge, gifts...
...course, there will be action figures. A popular one might be Hawaiian-born Kaleo, a former champ in Japan's pro league who, at his peak, weighed 345 lbs. He came out of retirement to compete, bulking up with an old sumo trick: eat chanko nabe, a rich stew, then promptly go to sleep. But size ultimately matters less than technique--there are 70 moves a wrestler can use to get his opponent out of the ring. "I'm a pusher, a thruster," says Kaleo, who fights for Japan. "I come out like a boo rush." An all-American sumo...
NAMED. TAI SHAN ("Peaceful Mountain"), the panda, now 13 lbs., born in July to Tian Tian and Mei Xiang at the National Zoo; in Washington. The choice was made in an online poll by more than 200,000 votes...