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...devised from his King's Road boutique was really just an elaborate prank on the music industry. Indeed, there is more than a measure of irony in the Pistols' being anointed to the iconic pantheon of a genre they had decried as fatuously boring and had aimed to destroy. Still, the actual band-drummer Paul Cook, guitarist Steve Jones, original bass player Glen Matlock and infamously thorny frontman, John Lydon (a.k.a. Johnny Rotten)-perceive the invitation as long overdue, asserting that they were the only people McLaren swindled, by deviously dividing their loyalties and dissolving the band at the tail...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Something Rotten in the Rock 'n Roll Hall of Fame? | 11/29/2005 | See Source »

...Sarah Fyffe will be happy to hear that. The Perth dog trainer became so incensed by negative attitudes to dingoes that earlier this year she applied for a license to keep three dingoes - and train them, at her own cost, to detect explosives. "I wanted to destroy the myths that they're untrainable and dangerous." Two months into her year-long project, the animals have surpassed her expectations. Hybrids she's tried to train for clients have been "like badly wired electrical systems," but the senses of the pure dingo - stubborn but smart - are undiluted. If they're not patrolling...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Dingo, Going, Gone? | 11/28/2005 | See Source »

...unworthy of a man in his position of leadership and invited much international criticism. Does Ahmadinejad really believe a country can just be obliterated from the face of the earth? The mighty American war machine cannot control the ragtag Taliban of Afghanistan or wipe them out, let alone destroy an entire country! What do deserve to be wiped out are thoughts like Ahmadinejad's. Isphanyar Bhandara Rawalpindi, Pakistan...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters | 11/27/2005 | See Source »

...unworthy of a man in his position of leadership and invited much international criticism. Does Ahmadinejad really believe a country can just be obliterated from the face of the earth? The mighty American war machine cannot control the ragtag Taliban of Afghanistan or wipe them out, let alone destroy an entire country. What does deserve to be wiped out is thoughts like Ahmadinejad's. Isphanyar Bhandara Rawalpindi, Pakistan Royal Family Values I was disappointed by "A Right Royal Makeover" [Nov. 7], J.F.O. McAllister's article on Prince Charles and his efforts to change his public image as an "ineffectual, eccentric...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: How to Save a Life | 11/26/2005 | See Source »

...during heavy rains and are a buffer against erosion, according to farmers. "The rice paddies prevent floods and landslides and maintain the Japanese landscape," says Masahiro Konno, general manager at the WTO office of Japan's Central Union of Agricultural Co-operatives. "A destruction of the rice farm will destroy agriculture in Japan...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Of Rice and Men | 11/20/2005 | See Source »

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