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...voles first survived because of the season's mild temperatures, then flourished thanks to large litters and a fleeting, 21-day gestation cycle. But in rural Spain, suggests Luque, people "prefer more elaborate theories." Says Ariano Medina, a beet farmer in the village of Fresno el Viejo, echoing a rumor common in these parts, "These aren't the moles we've had all our lives. I heard that scientists working for the government created them to feed endangered birds of prey...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Invasion of the Booty Snatchers | 8/29/2007 | See Source »

When Fametracker disses the famous, they stay dissed. Yet its nastiness is informed by a genuine love of show biz. "If we thought everything was crap," says editor Tara Ariano, "we wouldn't go see four movies a week." Fametracker simply wants justice: "Do you know," says Giancarlo Esposito's audit, "how many underappreciated, underrecognized and underutilized actors--like Giancarlo Esposito--could be made famous simply by stripping Whoopi Goldberg of her fame and dispensing it to the deserving?" Preach...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Irony Is Dead. Long Live Irony (On The Web) | 7/17/2000 | See Source »

BILLED as a "Brazilian Spectacle," a celebration of South American peasant life, Ariano Suassuna's The Rogue's Trial is an often entertaining, somewhat uneven, quasi-insipid piece of theater. It is, we are informed as soon as the lights have dimmed, "a highly moral story," a plea for mercy. The high moral which the play espouses, however, turns out to be that regardless of what one does on earth, heaven is ultimately attainable. It is no wonder that the Brazilian government and coffee-growers have supported the production of the play...

Author: By Mark D. Epstein, | Title: Ethical Rogues | 11/10/1973 | See Source »

...trying to persuade inhabitants to return to their homesites. Not only the fresh and fearful recollection of over 2,000 killed and twice as many injured, but the fact that the torn earth still quivered ominously from time to time made the villagers of Melfi, Puglia, Avellino, Ariano skeptical about going home prematurely...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ITALY: Reconstruction | 8/11/1930 | See Source »

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