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...Philip Ross, an artist, an inventor and a seriously obsessed amateur mycologist, isn't interested in the fancy caps we like to eat. What he's after are the fungi's thin, white rootlike fibers. Underground, they form a vast network called a mycelium. Far West Fungi's dirt-free hothouses pack in each mycelium so densely that it forms a mass of bright white spongy matter...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Industrial-Strength Fungus | 2/8/2010 | See Source »

MAHMOUD AHMADINEJAD, President of Iran, who had previously likened citizens protesting the results of the nation's disputed presidential election to "dirt and dust" --JUNE...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Verbatim | 12/28/2009 | See Source »

...officer was severely beating one man repeatedly over the shoulders and head as he crouched in the dirt by the sidewalk. A woman in a chador tried to pull him away, but she became the officer's next target. Somehow, though, the policeman found himself alone, and enraged protesters assailed him with rocks. One man hurled half a brick at his helmet from a distance of less than a yard...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: On a Holy Day, Protest and Carnage in Tehran | 12/28/2009 | See Source »

...long metal file he had presumably taken from a toolshed. The most impassioned of the group held a sharpened stick, which he brandished high in the air while he careened about menacingly, seemingly possessed. Later I saw one man brandishing a construction worker's shovel, still caked in dirt...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: On Scene: Preparing for a Bloody Confrontation | 12/27/2009 | See Source »

...yard in Colombo, and will likely be sold for scrap metal unless they decay before that. The dents where the waves hit are more pronounced now, and rusting has left gaping holes caving in the roofs and walls. The carriages' guts are a mess of ripped seats, metal poles, dirt and clothing, diaries and shoes. No one at the yard is sure who they belong to. Some could be from curious visitors who got into the carriages; others could of those doomed inside them. "After the initial rush to see them, they were soon forgotten," says Lalith Gamhewa, the station...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: In Sri Lanka, Tsunami Anniversary Inspires Mixed Reactions | 12/26/2009 | See Source »

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