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...whatever the past feats of amateur competitors, when the competition started around 3 p.m. during a brief pause in the rain, it quickly became clear that two registered competitive eaters—Pete “Pretty Boy” Davikos, a nationally-ranked professional eater from Boston, and Mike J. Springer, a recent graduate of Boston College—would dwarf all challengers...
...relations between the two countries are as tense as they've ever been, erupting into an exchange of fire between U.S. and Pakistani forces along the Afghan border on Thursday. But the meeting that appears to have gotten the Pakistani leader into more trouble than any other was a brief encounter with Republican vice-presidential candidate Sarah Palin...
...human exploration on this island, there are still countless species that have yet to be described - and that may be lost to extinction before we ever discover them. Our knowledge of this planet's incalculable richness is barely more complete than a flashlight's illumination of a tropical rainforest - brief and finite - but our capacity for destruction is limitless. Finally, our guide's passing beam catches the shining eyes of an indri in the night, reflecting back at us. It holds the light for a moment, and then, with a leap, it's gone...
...Both candidates will be joining Bush at the White House for a meeting of congressional leaders this afternoon, something McCain had called on Bush to organize yesterday. The meeting is expected to be brief. (To see how TIME has covered Wall Street over the years, click here...
...during one of her brief periods of freedom, Aung San Suu Kyi, in a syndicated newspaper column, wrote that Win Tin's "undoubted ability and his strength made [him] a prime target of those who opposed the democratic cause and in 1989 he became one of the first leaders of the NLD to be arrested. The charge against him involved an unproven telephone conversation with the father of an individual who had been declared a fugitive from the law. Telephone conversations are, in any case, inadmissible as evidence under Burmese law, but the law offers scant protection for those...