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...novel. Do you remember when you were 10 or 11 years old and you really thought your folks were the best? They were completely omniscient and you took their word for everything. And then you got older and you went through this hideous age when suddenly they were the devil, they were bullies, and they didn't know anything. Pygmy's host family treats America as this place where everything is perfect. But Pygmy is trained to treat America as that bully, the oppressor, the evil idiot. Eventually beyond both of those stages you break into accepting your parents...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Novelist Chuck Palahniuk | 5/12/2009 | See Source »

Plaques and portraits of Ecuador's 105 Presidents line the yellow walls of the antechamber to the restrooms in El Pobre Diablo (The Poor Devil), a bohemian hangout in Quito, the capital. Spoofing the presidential palace's silk screen Yellow Salon, each is marked with the number of days they lasted in office. A digital clock ticks off the days served by current President Rafael Correa. It will probably run far longer than his predecessors...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: In Ecuador, a Win for the Left May Be Good for Business | 4/28/2009 | See Source »

...tough enemy to combat. With Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome, or SARS, patients developed symptoms around the same time they became contagious. But with the flu, a person can spread the infection days before they feel sick enough to go to a doctor. "The flu is a known devil," says Malik Peiris, one of the scientists at Hong Kong University who helped trace the 2003 outbreak of SARS to the civet cat. "This is a different ballgame...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Lessons from SARS | 4/27/2009 | See Source »

...Baer, a former CIA field officer assigned to the Middle East, is TIME.com's intelligence columnist and the author of See No Evil and, most recently, The Devil We Know...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The CIA's Willful Ignorance on Harsh Interrogations | 4/22/2009 | See Source »

...seems, does the rest of the region after this summit. To most Latin Americans, Obama could not present a starker contrast to his predecessor, George W. Bush, whom Chávez once called "the devil" and whose relations with the hemisphere were strained at best. Even Bill Clinton as President didn't set foot south of the border until five months into his second term. Latin America, according to many experts, has the worst gap between rich and poor of any region in the world - a big reason why the U.S. has so many immigration-policy headaches. And what Obama...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Signs of Spring: U.S.-Latin America Relations Thaw | 4/20/2009 | See Source »

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