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...teenager in the 1950s, Louisa Solano learned to tell time backwards at the Grolier Poetry Book Shop. She read a clock reflected in the mirror of a barber shop across the street...
...without any doubt, the best bombers in the whole wide world. Several weeks prior to June 5, the squadron doctor had passed out a small pill to each crew member. He said the pills were intended to keep the crews awake in case we had to work around the clock. Everybody knew that this was in preparation for D-day. I don't know how they worked on anybody else, but they kept me awake for three nights and three days, completely unable to sleep...
Baron Cohen first gained popularity in his native Britain on “The 11 O’clock Show,” a satire of nightly news...
...general has spent much of the past year trying to prevent the occupation from becoming an unwinnable quagmire--and that was before the prison-abuse scandal at Abu Ghraib erupted in all its sordid horror. Now Abizaid and his men are racing against the clock, attempting to turn back the insurgency, soothe Iraqi outrage at the U.S. and bring the country enough security so that Iraqis can begin to take power after June 30, when a U.N.-anointed caretaker government steps in. Abizaid, accompanied by TIME on a mission to Iraq this month, flies low and fast. When he arrives...
Finally, their biological alarm clock goes off. When that time comes, scientists think, a soil temperature of 64F (18C) signals the nymphs to tunnel back...