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...Ladies and gentlemen, this is the most terrifying thing I have ever witnessed...Someone's crawling out of the hollow top...The whole field's caught fire...It's coming this way. About twenty yards to my right...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Orson Welles' War of the Worlds | 10/30/2008 | See Source »

Yeah, actually I do. It caught me off guard at first, because some of it is so personal. But they feel like they know me through reading my books, so they'll tell me all sorts of things. I'm sort of getting used to it. One woman told me that she had once stopped in the middle of having sex and made her boyfriend get a condom because in my books, I always write about the importance of protection. And I've had more women than I can count tell me that they've left abusive relationships because...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Vampire Novelist Laurell K. Hamilton | 10/30/2008 | See Source »

...meatless lifestyle never really caught on in the West, although it would sometimes pop up during health crazes and religious revivals. The Ephrata Cloister, a strict religious sect founded in 1732 in Pennsylvania, advocated vegetarianism - as well as celibacy. The 18th century utilitarian philosopher Jeremy Bentham believed that animal suffering was just as serious as human suffering, and likened the idea of human superiority to racism...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Veganism | 10/30/2008 | See Source »

...name of (Hermann) Goering said that the Jews were responsible for all the misery the Germans was having. One lie. And that lie caught on. And before it was all over, 6 million of them died." - Kilpatrick's father, Bernard, a former county commissioner, comparing his son's persecution in the local media to Nazi propaganda. He later apologized. (The Detroit News...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Kwame Kilpatrick | 10/28/2008 | See Source »

...swelled from about 5% of the population in 1990 to approximately 20% in 2007. Along the Occoquan and Potomac rivers, the state's northern and eastern borders, historic black neighborhoods argue for space with new developments: golf courses, strip malls, gated communities, retirement villages - many that stand half finished, caught off guard by the subprime crisis. Such bedroom communities have been the worst hit in the state by the economic downturn; before the market plunge, high gas prices and highway congestion topped the list of concerns for those commuting to Washington or the northern Virginia cities of Arlington and Alexandria...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Why the New Virginia Is Leaning Toward Obama | 10/27/2008 | See Source »

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