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...scorching June afternoon in Jhajjal village in southwestern Punjab, elderly men have gathered in a communal courtyard to quell the boredom of the long afternoon with a game of cards. The cotton crop has been sown, and the farmers have a few weeks' holiday before they must return to their fields. As with most small villages, everyone knows everyone else here, and the conversation centers around marriages and births. But these usually mundane topics have taken on a tragic twist, involving couples failing to conceive, children being born with genetic disorders, people of all ages succumbing to cancer. Nadar Singh...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: India's Deadly Chemical Addiction | 6/10/2008 | See Source »

...finally decided to migrate red, but he gets clef toed and is a how son at the my encore. Instead of her oh no money, Carrie spends time at a Mars excretion being consolidates in the company of her patchy timesfriends, who have their own lob sperm. Miranda has boredom issues with Steve, who is briefly a flu fun hit, provoking her to have lime. Charlotte, who has radiated glop but still hopes to vibe right, finds out that she angers pint. And Samantha gets axe sully distracted by the sight of a lewd lewd eon gent next door. Miranda...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sex and the City: Kinda Into You | 5/29/2008 | See Source »

...medical student, suffered from asthma, was more ruthless than Castro, was the real brain behind the operation. Big deal. ... When we aren't getting newsreels, we're getting routine footage of guerrilla clashes in the jungle. ... All this movie inspires toward the Cuban Revolution is excruciating boredom..." He wrote this in 1969, in a review of the flop Hollywood bio-pic Che!, with the not-very-Latin Omar Sharif as Guevara. Yet most of Ebert's denunciations apply to Soderbergh's movie, which dispenses with the exclamation point - and, in fact, with almost all of the compelling, sometimes contradictory drama...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Soderbergh and Tarantino: Warrior Auteurs | 5/22/2008 | See Source »

...this strange wrap-roll-up-sandwich creation was unlike anything I had previously encountered. I savored each bite and, to my dining companion’s unsurprised boredom, chronicled each delicious detail that made the platter so utterly delectable. As I clawed the remnants of sticky, sweet cheese off my devoured plate, my blabbering became a monologue on how the dish—so close to perfection—might yet be bettered still...

Author: By Rebecca A. Kaden, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Gourmet Food For Thought | 4/30/2008 | See Source »

...example, "My boyfriend broke up with me and I thought we were going to get married." Or "I thought I would get pregnant easily and I can't." "I felt my husband would be different." "I thought my job would give me meaning, and it just gives me boredom." Because they feel guilty for coming to me, they start like this: "There are children starving in Africa, Rabbi, so I feel a little embarrassed coming to talk to you about this." And I say, "Know that God is big enough to care for the children starving in Africa and whatever...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: God is Laughing With You | 4/29/2008 | See Source »

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