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Andrew, his brother Adam and their friend Luke started People of Walmart after a shopping trip to a South Carolina branch earlier this month. "We turned a corner to see a stripper - at least, I think she was a stripper - with a shirt that read 'Go F___ Yourself,' and she had a 2-year-old kid in one of those child harnesses that looked like a dog leash," says Adam. They turned another corner and saw a guy with a ZZ Top beard...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: That Viral Thing: People of Walmart | 8/31/2009 | See Source »

...university. Still, Sethi's sharp eye, worthy of being an entomologist's, makes the book a steadily absorbing read, all 400-plus pages of it. Recollecting his first day at a private boy's academy, Zaki remembers of a classroom: "A dead wasp lay on its back in a corner of the windowsill with its legs curled up. It had wandered in past the mesh and never found its way out." It's a muted metaphor not just for Zaki but for Pakistan as a whole. It's this kind of nuanced detail in The Wish Maker, moreover, that leaves...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Lahore Calling | 8/31/2009 | See Source »

...cell phone service, starting tomorrow. A “cell on wheels”—a trailer containing signal transmission and reception equipment known as a COW—has recently been set up next to Cabot House’s Barnard Hall, located on the southwest corner of the Quad. The “visually obtrusive” COW serves as a temporary solution for providing reliable AT&T wireless service in the Quad until a permanent antenna is installed next fall, following city and state approval, said Zachary M. Gingo ’98, director...

Author: By June Q. Wu, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Quad Gets Boosted AT&T Service | 8/30/2009 | See Source »

...Neighbor Diane Doty said she could see the tents and often heard children playing in the backyard, the corner of which abuts her own backyard. She said she even suspected the children lived in the tents, but her husband said she should leave the family alone...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Police: Sex Offender Kept Victim, Kids in Shed | 8/28/2009 | See Source »

John F. Kennedy's funeral was one of those events that shoved history around a corner. That was the day the '50s became the '60s, that new generation bearing its torch now using it to set fires. By the time of Bobby Kennedy's assassination in the early hours of June 5, 1968, the dreamy promise of Camelot seemed like a mirage. The City on a Hill was burning down, American power and goodness both turning to ashes in Vietnam. In New York the murder rate jumped 21% in 1968 alone; and then murder swept away first Martin Luther King...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Kennedys Face Death: The Agony of Grieving in Public | 8/28/2009 | See Source »

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