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...Maoists surrounded his house in Surket to the northwest, tied his hands behind his back and demanded $170, his annual salary. They also said he should tear up the curriculum and start teaching "practical" education classes, such as giving instructions on how to sow potato seeds or repair a corn thresher. When Khada refused, they kicked him, shattered his legs with a stick packed in a rubber pipe and whipped him with a bicycle chain before leaving him for dead. "They told me they wanted to destroy all trace of the government and anything outside the party," says Khada. "They...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nepal: Return to Year Zero | 5/6/2002 | See Source »

...Horse plans on putting out the complete multi-volume collection (printed left to right, by the way) on a monthly basis. It's about time. Astro Boy has become iconic in Japan. Considered the "God of Manga," Tezuka's work laid the foundation of manga style. This is the Corn Flakes of Japanese pop culture...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Two New Comix for Kids | 4/23/2002 | See Source »

...preferred cooking method would probably have been boiling: this Maori village, home to about 70, sits among geothermally heated pools and is periodically sprayed by two spectacular geysers. These days, locals sell freshly boiled sweet corn, plucked from the simmering pools and naturally seasoned by sulfur dioxide...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Hot Spot | 4/22/2002 | See Source »

...Series 1998 --.” Using translucent Mylar architectural plans, Johnson mixes garish hues and iconographic objects, the most provocative being sliced sections of womens’ g-string underwear. He attaches the garments to the surface with tacks and red-painted razor blades, surrounding them with playing cards, corn plasters, stickers and Band-Aids. The g-strings assume any number of shapes, from a praying mantis in “Marcel: Please Don’t Feed the Mantis” to a marionette gothic knight in “Wenceslas Puppet.” On the surface...

Author: By James Crawford, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Solo Self-Reflection Shines in Dual Show | 4/12/2002 | See Source »

...symptoms such as headache and nausea in humans. The federal EPA is also considering a ban. Unlike other gasoline components that stick to the soil when they leak, MTBE is unusually solvent, escaping from even reinforced tanks and moving rapidly into nearby water wells. Water experts say ethanol, a corn derivative, would be less harmful, but California is lobbying Congress to let gasoline be sold in the state without either MTBE or ethanol...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Environment: Toxic Trade? | 3/25/2002 | See Source »

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