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Imagine you've just woken up from a 30-year coma. You don't understand computers, don't know what the Internet is or what it does and you've certainly never heard of this video-sharing site called YouTube. As you try to re-enter society, you notice that the only things people are talking about are "Sabrina Takes a Tumble," "Keyboard Cat," "David After Dentist," "Charlie Bit Me" and some guy named Chris Crocker...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Best and Worst of YouTube in Four Minutes | 10/1/2009 | See Source »

...poke their finger in the eye of our nation and go unpunished." The same day, several French tourists were viciously attacked by soccer hooligans wielding iron bars while they sat at a café in downtown Belgrade following a soccer match. One of the men is still in a coma. Three days later, an Australian tourist was beaten up by thugs who thought he "looked gay," police said. (Read "Russia to Gays: Get Back into the Closet...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Right-Wing Threats Scrap Serbian Gay-Pride Parade | 9/23/2009 | See Source »

...Reports of assaults started to surface a year ago, peaking with a series of vicious attacks in May and June this year that left one student in a coma. Over 2,000 students marched in Melbourne in protest, prompting the Indian government to condemn the violence in June and Prime Minister Kevin Rudd to issue a statement officially denying that the country was unsafe for Indian students. Students claimed the attacks were racially motivated, but police and government authorities maintained they were mainly opportunistic. Tensions also spread to Sydney, with protests erupting at Harris Park, in the city's west...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Australia: Attacks on Indian Students Raise Racism Cries | 9/10/2009 | See Source »

...armed man to help coerce) what they want done. Seems to work out fairly well for them, but I guess I’m still a little young to be quite that bitter. There’s always the option of pulling a Buster and faking a coma to escape from it all, but I suspect that real doctors might be slightly more competent than the ones on the show...

Author: By Aditi Balakrishna | Title: (Not So) Caged Wisdom | 7/21/2009 | See Source »

...similar terms.) Shanno's sisters Saima and Sehnaz then ran to get their mother. "We thought our sister was dead," Saima said. When their mother arrived, she found Shanno lying on the ground, Khan says, and by the time Shanno was taken home she had slipped into a coma. He breaks down while relating Shanno's last words to her mother: "I never want to go to school again." Shanno died the next day, on April...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Why India's Teachers Do Not Spare the Rod | 5/2/2009 | See Source »

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