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Tuesday morning felt like Groundhog Day for many Belgians, who awoke to discover their Prime Minister had resigned.

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Mission Impossible: Leading Belgium | 7/16/2008 | See Source »

Several months of research led Barclay to discover that the insect, which resembles the common North American box elder bug, is actually most closely related to to Arocatus roeselii. But that European bug is also associated with alder trees rather than sycamores. An insect specimen found in Nice on France...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Mystery Insect Found in London | 7/15/2008 | See Source »

If you know where to find a good plastic-free shampoo, can you tell Jeanne Haegele? Last September, the 28-year-old Chicago resident resolved to cut plastics out of her life. The marketing coordinator was concerned about what the chemicals leaching out of some common types of plastic might...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Truth About Plastic | 7/10/2008 | See Source »

Lessing's book, an account of her childhood on the frontlines of her parents' horrific memories, is an unusual work in two parts. The first half, a novella, imagines the lives her parents could have lived in England had the war never occurred; the second half, a memoir, recounts how...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Doris Lessing's Battle Scars | 7/9/2008 | See Source »

Twain himself, of course, joined up on the Southern side. In his justifiably famous 1885 essay The Private History of a Campaign That Failed, he describes how he knocked about from one position on the war to another, evidently following in the footsteps of his buddies. One striking aspect of...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Getting Past Black and White | 7/3/2008 | See Source »

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