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...professional interest in globalization. The anarchists, environmentalists, nativists and trade unionists among the latter will certainly be interested to learn that they, too, have their predecessors - factory workers in 18th century England rioted over imported Indian cotton, while abolitionists raged against the market forces and military superiorities that respectively drove and enabled whites to turn blacks into slaves...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Just Like the Old Days | 8/9/2007 | See Source »

...film was a surprise hit and ushered in the era of permissive American cinema. For about a decade, thanks to Antonioni, Hollywood movies had permission to be enigmatic, unflinching and adult. Permission was denied when Jaws and Star Wars proved that kids, not adults, were the engine that drove profits...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: When Antonioni Blew Up the Movies | 8/5/2007 | See Source »

...After Pasadena, I took a road trip to see another of my old pals, this one at the United States Military Academy. Two friends and I packed up a barbecue and drove to West Point, where our cadet was in the midst of summer field training. It wasn’t important that none of us knew how to grill—or, rather, it didn’t occur...

Author: By Nathaniel S. Rakich | Title: Cooking Classes | 8/2/2007 | See Source »

...after the big semi-final victory over South Korea. There were other ways to celebrate. Fans clapped and sang and danced in the streets. Some set off fireworks. Boys went door to door giving away free orange juice to mark the victory. In one neighborhood Iraqi police drove through the streets waving the Iraqi flag from their trucks...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Iraqis Unite Over a Big Soccer Win | 7/29/2007 | See Source »

...RODENTS 2 billion Number of field mice that have swarmed central China after the worst floods in 50 years drove them out of lowland fields 80? Amount that Guangzhou entrepreneurs were reported by local media to be paying for a kilogram of live mice, to be served at banquets...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Verbatim | 7/19/2007 | See Source »

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