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...possibly-have-a-team Oral Roberts run with purebreds Duke and UCLA?grows in meaning every year. It may also be the gambling, the guilt-free jalapeo-popper binges or the camaraderie born when three-quarters of the workforce enters a two-hour conspiracy to disappear...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Hoop Dreams. | 3/20/2008 | See Source »

...advantage of modern travel delays by posing as stranded passengers in order to sleep in a warm and safe place. They play a cat-and-mouse game with police, often donning floral shirts, fanny packs and other travel accessories to blend in. And their increasing creativity - and ability to disappear in Heathrow's swelling crowds of delayed passengers - has prompted the airport to try a new approach...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Heathrow's Down-and-Out Jet Set | 3/20/2008 | See Source »

...attempting to “keep the golden age [of newspaper journalism] alive” through his work as editor in chief and president of ProPublica, an independent non-profit that Jones described as resisting the current trend of newspapers to allow “investigative journalism to disappear.” ProPublica offers free investigative material to newspapers and other media outlets across the country in addition to publishing its material online. Steiger said that ProPublica’s goal is to “reach the people who can actually make a difference.” By attempting...

Author: By Grace Kim, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Steiger Downplays Media Fears | 3/19/2008 | See Source »

...15th Dalai Lama, a Beijing puppet, will not be the true "Dalai Lama of Tibetan hearts." As practical and flexible as ever and holding to the Buddhist ideas of impermanence and nonattachment, he told me as far back as 1996, "At a certain stage, the Dalai Lama institution will disappear. But that does not mean that Tibetan Buddhist culture will cease. No!" Most Tibetans, however, cannot abide the thought of a future without their traditional leader...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Monk's Struggle | 3/19/2008 | See Source »

...that time - you had every flexibility that you have here in New York except being able to say anything bad about the government. Here I can say whatever I want, no one is listening. But there you cannot. I've seen it with my own eyes that people disappear for no reason. In Iraq, no matter what you would have done at that time, you could not make money that can get you a step further. You will always be getting enough to just...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Laith Yousif — Iraqi 9/11 Survivor | 3/18/2008 | See Source »

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