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...candle sticking out the side of my head, I feel less like David Beckham than a human birthday cake-but this technique was used by the ancient Egyptians, and a civilization that knew how to extract the brain via the nose probably had no trouble removing waxy buildup. After 20 minutes, the specialist plucks out the candle, cuts it open and proudly shows me the gobs of crumbly stuff that emerged from my ears. Sure, she probably nipped a little brain matter, too, but who needs IQ points? I'm going to be pretty...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: In the Salon | 6/22/2006 | See Source »

...Soviet Union came across a huge field of diamonds in the Siberian tundra in 1956, De Beers made an unprecedented offer: it would buy the entire run at a guaranteed price. The profits-estimated at $25 million a year-bolstered the Kremlin's treasury and helped fund the buildup of nuclear arms. The Russian gems went into the vaults under Charterhouse Street. When the Soviet Union unraveled in 1990, De Beers went back to Moscow, offering the transitional government $1 billion in exchange for part of the nation's stockpile of Siberian diamonds. Diamonds were a $40 billion retail business...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Dark Core of a Diamond | 6/20/2006 | See Source »

...fighter aircraft - and is set to visit Moscow in late July to discuss arms deals, among other matters. Late last week, after Chavez announced a deal to buy 24 Russian fighter jets, a U.S. State Department spokesman said Venezuela appeared to be in the midst of an "outsized military buildup for a country of that size and the nature of the threats" in the region. Venezuelan officials say the purchases are not part of any real arms buildup, but simply a necessary move to replace aging, outdated military equipment...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: On Scene: Venezuela's War Games | 6/19/2006 | See Source »

...outplayed my own game. To prove that statistics don’t matter, I have to first make it seem like they do.And since I know that in the end, numbers are irrelevant, I can’t be comfortable with including them even as the buildup to that conclusion. The number of stories I’ve written in the past four years won’t be recorded in Elias Sports Bureau. No one cares about the latest time I ever got out of the Crimson, or how many football games I covered, or how many serial commas...

Author: By Lisa Kennelly, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: PARTING SHOTS: Telling the Whole Sports Story, Statistics and All | 6/5/2006 | See Source »

...degrees Fahrenheit. Sullivan says that a two-degree marginal error exists because the temperature they are looking for is the temperature on the plate, and as soon as the dishwasher is opened, the temperature goes down considerably.Sullivan cited Redline for the presence of lime- and detergent-buildup on the dishwasher fixtures, advising one of the restaurant’s “persons-in-charge,” Sean Kennedy, to handle it immediately.‘ANYONE CAN HAVE A BAD DAY’One inspection is not always representative of a restaurant’s daily habits, Sullivan...

Author: By Rebecca L. Ledford, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Policing Your Plates | 4/25/2006 | See Source »

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