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...knew that tomorrow he would start feeling ill again (since it was only three days from the full moon), and he really didn't feel like getting sick. He ran his fingers through his light brown hair and looked deep within the black, bitter coffee with a blank expression...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Life after Potter, Bonanza and Gunsmoke | 8/30/2007 | See Source »

...Tuesday in the Green Zone, was blunt in his bleak assessment. "Progress on national level issues has been extremely disappointing and frustrating to all concerned - to us, to Iraqis, to the Iraqi leadership itself," said Crocker, who echoed rising voices of discontent in Washington. "Our support is not a blank check...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Last Chance for the Surge | 8/21/2007 | See Source »

...says, the extent of the upgrades and repairs that SBX and a few other MDA systems have required are signs of an agency that is buying time to deliver weapons that the White House has asked for but may not yet be realistic. "It's giving [the program] a blank check to keep developing and never have to justify itself," Samson says...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Giant 'Golfball' for Missile Defense | 8/14/2007 | See Source »

...Shakespeare Company sitting in the audience, and a girl who was maybe 11 came up to me and said, "I love you in Star Trek." And I'm sitting there thinking I'm the king of the world, and I said, "Actually, I'm Ben Kingsley." She looked completely blank and said, "Well, congratulations, you look like Patrick Stewart...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: 10 Questions for Sir Ben Kingsley | 8/2/2007 | See Source »

...average person who Fred Kavli is, and you'll probably draw a blank stare. Pose the same question to the scientific community, however, and you're likely to get an admiring smile. Since 2000, when the Norwegian-born engineer started a foundation that bears his name, the upstart philanthropist has funded work in several critical scientific areas and virtually created a new class system among research universities: those that can boast of having a Kavli Institute and those that wish they could...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Next Nobel? | 8/2/2007 | See Source »

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