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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...what everyone wishes and aspires and loves to be," Holder says. And that was the echoed sentiment from all convention-goers: "It's really about pretending what it's going to be like when you're grown up. Barbie has had over 108 careers, so you can be a doctor, a policewoman, a firefighter, even a television chef," says Grampp. "You really can be anything...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Barbie's 50th Birthday Convention | 7/27/2009 | See Source »

...often be purchased for the price of a high-end TV. In Iran - the only country in the world where organ sales are legal - a healthy kidney retails for about $6,000. The going rate is less than half that amount in India, which has an abundance of doctors capable of performing the procedure and destitute masses often unable to raise cash any other way. In January 2008, police busted an organ racket outside New Delhi that allegedly conned or forced poor laborers to relinquish their kidneys to wealthy clients. Investigators say the ring operated for years and included...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: How Does Kidney-Trafficking Work? | 7/27/2009 | See Source »

...much more difficult, not least because there are easier ways to make a buck. Selling organs has been illegal since 1984, and is punishable by five years in prison and a $50,000 fine. Even if breaking the law doesn't deter you, it's difficult to hoodwink a doctor into believing that a fraudulent organ donor's motives are purely altruistic. U.S. hospitals run donor-recipient couples through a series of interviews, including a meeting with a social worker, who checks to make sure that no money is exchanging hands and ensures that both parties understand the details...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: How Does Kidney-Trafficking Work? | 7/27/2009 | See Source »

...meeting with network clients, she happens to be wearing a pair of sexually vibrating panties that Mike gave her, and, in a gloss on Meg Ryan's fake orgasm in When Harry Met Sally..., she writhes, way too long, in ecstasy and mortification. At a ball game with the doctor, she follows Mike's advice and fellates a hot dog, then is seen on the scoreboard Kiss-Cam bending over, and I can't even type what happens, it's so demeaning and annoying...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Ugly Truth: Katherine Heigl Gets Mocked Up | 7/24/2009 | See Source »

McKalip, David • photoshopped image of Obama as a witch doctor with a bone through his nose is forwarded to fellow Tea Party loons by with the note, "Funny stuff...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: This Preposterous Week! Paul Slansky's News Index | 7/24/2009 | See Source »

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