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Everybody hates reruns, but everybody loves clay animation. CONAN O'BRIEN did the math. On May 15, Late Night will air TV's first clay-animated rerun. "This took four very low-paid people a long time to do," says O'Brien. "And thank God we didn't have the...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: May 19, 2003 | 5/19/2003 | See Source »

Vietnam will probably be seeing a lot more propatainment. The government's Cinematography Department, first founded by Ho Chi Minh 50 years ago, announced in February that it would only release films with "popular appeal." It has already rejected eight scripts deemed boring. Not all Vietnamese-made films are political...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Social Evil Sells | 5/5/2003 | See Source »

Schlosser concentrates his search on three areas: pot, migrant labor and pornography. (In case you're wondering whether combining porn and economics makes economics interesting or porn boring, it's the former.) He follows the money down some dark alleys: into peep shows and prisons, subterranean high-tech hydroponic pot...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Keep Off The Grass | 4/28/2003 | See Source »

Death Valley. The very name repels. So do the superlatives: the lowest point in the Western Hemisphere (282 ft. below sea level), one of the hottest places on earth (record high: 134°F) and one of the dryest (average annual rainfall: 1.8 in.). A vast stretch of nothingness. Boring. Bleak...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Travel: Death Valley Delights | 4/28/2003 | See Source »

If your spicy seafood honeymoon ends with your tongue seeking divorce, cool it off with one of Smile’s decadent desserts. My assistant—obviously a regular— demands we split the fried banana and ice cream dish ($3.25). Unmoved by the boring notion...

Author: By William L. Adams, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Smile Big | 4/24/2003 | See Source »

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