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...plan consists of typical American food: casseroles, hamburgers, blue-plate specials. The alternative is a diet conforming to almost all religious restrictions. It contains no pork and incorporates lots of beans and vegetables. Muslims get special mealtimes during the month of Ramadan, when the observant do not eat during daylight hours...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Inside Bomber Row | 11/5/2006 | See Source »

...Coolest Insurgent Act - Stealing almost $7 million from the main bank in Ramadi in broad daylight, then, upon exiting, waving to the Marines in the combat outpost right next to the bank, who had no clue of what was going on. The Marines waved back. Too cool...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Secret Letter From Iraq | 10/6/2006 | See Source »

...first, not what will make them happy. "You ask students what they want," says Rachel Petrella, a counselor at California's La Jolla Country Day School, "and they say, 'What do you mean, What do I want? What do I get? I've been working for four years without daylight. I'm supposed to go to the most selective school I've earned, right...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Who Needs Harvard? | 8/21/2006 | See Source »

...working the small vineyard owned by their father, an immigrant from Italy's northern Piedmont. 'We had a tractor in the barn, but we didn't have enough money to buy gas,' recalls Ernest. 'Instead, we used four mules and worked the vineyards seven days a week from daylight to dusk.' With the first stirrings of [Prohibition's] repeal, they dug up $5,900.23 in capital and set out to produce their own wine. They rented a railroad shed for $60 a month, bought a $2,000 grape crusher and redwood tanks on 90- to 180-day terms. There...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters | 8/14/2006 | See Source »

...curtains drawn against the daylight didn't ring a warning bell, the grilles covering the windows should have. But after 300 km in the glare of the Western Australian sun, the only thing to do is ditch the car, head for the nearest pub and dive into a frosty beer. Dive is the word. Up the steps, through a wooden door into a neon-lit room with battered furniture, dog racing on a couple of TVs, a pool table in an alcove illuminated by the cold blue light used in public toilets to discourage intravenous drug users...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Spiritual Refreshment | 8/7/2006 | See Source »

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