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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...coast for her. Nothing was left of it after the tsunami," Nafrath Sulthan, her father, tells TIME. He sits in front of one of dozens of dimly lit, tin-sheet roofed shelters, with clothes, suitcases, extra furniture, garbage and even domestic chickens littered out front. Thick electrical wires coil near the top of the doors of some of the structures; their occupants fear that power outages could end up engulfing their homes. It's happened before...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: In Sri Lanka, Tsunami Anniversary Inspires Mixed Reactions | 12/26/2009 | See Source »

...something,” Rozier’s painting, which was greeted with a standing ovation at its September 2 unveiling, provides a centerpiece for Leverett to collectively enjoy. “The new mural is gorgeous. I’m really excited,” said Kaitlyn E. Coil ’10. The incoming painting, created over the summer, is drawn from a photograph Rozier took of the Charles, exactly from the angle that Leverett looks onto the river. This picture was the last one that she managed to snap before her camera memory ran out. The lucky...

Author: By Li S. Zhou | Title: A Dining Room With a (New) View | 9/23/2009 | See Source »

...predict that General Education classes would be large since freshmen have just one "U.S. in the World" class to look at this fall, they may have forgotten that there are still all those sophomores, juniors, and seniors who are under a curriculum that has already "shuffled off its mortal coil," in English professor James Simpson's words over a year...

Author: By Bonnie J. Kavoussi | Title: Cores Flowing Out the Doors | 9/4/2009 | See Source »

...this docudrama grit allows for precious little dramatic juice. Given that Dillinger's death was the most famous kill in FBI history, there can be no coil of suspense in this story; its ending is as predictable as a Passion play's. The vitality has to come from whatever fresh insights Mann can find in Dillinger's Stations of the Cross. And these are lacking. Few sparks are struck in the love story; Cotillard, last year's Oscar winner for La Vie en Rose, makes a tepid bedmate for the always sexy Depp. Mostly the film displays gangsters doing their...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Kill Dill: Depp's Dillinger Disappoints | 7/6/2009 | See Source »

...Alan Bennett, with her feet in stirrups and her husband by her side. She was awake and relaxed enough to let me watch (weird, I know) as Bennett inserted first a thin camera into her uterus and then, using a video monitor as a guide, a small coil into each of her Fallopian tubes. Afterward, Jackson walked to her car and went home to her kids. (See the Year in Health, from...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Permanent Birth Control | 12/11/2008 | See Source »

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