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...their next fare. This is still very much a society in transition, a place where the National Buddhism Office in 2003 felt obliged to warn monks not to use mobile phones in public. Very Thai is a compendium of fast-disappearing folklore: fortune-tellers who divine omens from rat-bitten clothes; apothecaries who make herbal aphrodisiacs so strong that they "could make a monk leap over the temple wall in search of romance"; fetus worshipping, spirit channeling, and other not-in-front-of-the-tourists activities...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Thais That Bind | 3/7/2005 | See Source »

...John Paul's appointments for Monday because of what was described as a mild case of the flu. The plugged-in Italian press corps took a light approach to the story by noting that the 84-year-old Pope had caught the same flu bug that had already bitten half of Rome. Tuesday morning another statement cleared the Pope's calendar for the next two days, but confirmed that there was nothing serious about his condition. But when the Italian newswire ANSA flashed word just after 11 p.m. local Rome time on Tuesday that the Pontiff had been rushed...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Inside the Pope's Illness | 2/2/2005 | See Source »

...remorse or the kind of inward reflection one hopes for from characters in novels. In one scene Franco viciously whips a dog because it resembles a dog that bit him when he was little. "Franco knew perfectly well that this dog was not the same dog that had bitten him, but he did not care. For him, justice was served...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: One Deserved to Win, the Other ... | 11/29/2004 | See Source »

...you’d bitten your tongue and kept watching from the stands of the Bright Hockey Center, though, your patience would have been rewarded in spades...

Author: By Rebecca A. Seesel, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Doing the Incredible: Men's Hockey Upsets No. 1 BC | 11/17/2004 | See Source »

...himself on fire and pulling chairs out from his nether region. Still, the majority of the prank calls are like “Pet Cobra,” a mixture of offensive stereotyping (in this case a man with an over-the-top Indian accent who’s bitten by his cobra while charming it with a flute) and an overall difficulty and aggression...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: New Music | 11/12/2004 | See Source »

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