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...temple with a giant sculpture of a reclining Buddha. The temple didn't have much in the way of meditative calm. Before the Buddha stood two pretty girls in cotton-candy dresses who for $1.20 posed for photos with their pet python. It was curled up miserably in a basin with its mouth taped shut. Next to them were two more girls with a peacock. Downstairs at the entrance, shops offered a narrow but highly popular selection of souvenirs: jade bracelets, packets of ginseng and hard-core pornographic VCDs...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Burmese Daze | 1/28/2001 | See Source »

...plenty of. The rubber strips that part for punched chads grew old and stiff over age, he told Gore questioner Stephen Zack. Some styluses were particularly apt to leave chad behind. Some people voted with the card on top of the machine, and only left dimples. Sometimes the chad basin filled up so high that punching through was futile. And Brace never missed an opportunity to tack a Gore talking point at the end of observations. The scanner misses votes, so all the votes in Maimi-Dade must be counted by hand, "the only way of absolutely knowing for sure...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Incredible Shrinking Voting-Machine Expert | 12/2/2000 | See Source »

...Miami-Dade manual recount, whatever the legal questions involved (that'll come later), and there was no evidence Sauls didn't see it. And when Beck had finished, and wiped the blood off his lips, Gore lawyer Zack made up some lost ground, bringing in a genuine Votomatic whose basin that was "filled to the brim with chad." The intuitive virtues of Brace's testimony were badly wounded, but they survived...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Incredible Shrinking Voting-Machine Expert | 12/2/2000 | See Source »

...photographs, the acclaimed Dutch naturalist turns the flora and fauna of Borneo, Madagascar and the Amazon basin into objets d'art. Not a human is in sight, though Lanting's artistry and perseverance are hard to miss in these kingdoms where he was the intruder and adversary. As he notes, "I have seen leaf-cutter ants eat my tent, fungi grow in my lenses, and larvae emerge from the flesh of my leg." This reasonably priced volume is ideal for the bright child who needs to know there's a world beyond PlayStation2--a world of drama, danger and grandeur...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Treats That Speak Volumes | 11/20/2000 | See Source »

Smith Barney Pacific L -49.54 56.31 INVESCO Pacific Basin -43.94 35.27 Federated Asia Pacific Growth C -41.27 74.37 Prudential Pacific Growth B -38.67 46.90 Excelsior Pacific /Asia Fund...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: In Brief: Nov. 20, 2000 | 11/20/2000 | See Source »

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