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...lair, and they're still at it today. At the Dayingezhuang mine 19 miles (30 km) south of Mount Luo, workers take an open elevator car for a 21/2-minute plunge down a dark, icy shaft. At the bottom, amid swirling condensation and suffocating dankness, they enter a large hall labeled as face number 5,206. The night before, an engineer used 2-meter lengths of dynamite to blast 150 tons of rock from the roof. Now two men use an earthmover to load the rock so it can be hauled to the surface, where it is crushed and mixed...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Glitter Factory | 3/27/2008 | See Source »

Expect to see lots of those good guys on store shelves soon. At least five companies in the U.S. either are in the probiotic game or are planning to enter. Plain yogurt remains the best product for added bacteria because it has three things the bugs absolutely love: lactose (or naturally occurring sugar), fat and water. Another food out there with both sugar and fat is chocolate, and--you guessed it--the company Attune already has a probiotic chocolate bar. That's something that may prompt me to give the superstar bacteria a try after...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Eat Your Germs | 3/27/2008 | See Source »

...parties that competed in the election have nearly identical platforms, but accusations (mild by Western standards) of influence-peddling and smear tactics have begun to enter the discourse, and people are worrying that Bhutan's close-knit society will suffer. Lyonpo Sonam Tobgye, Bhutan's Chief Justice and the main architect of the draft constitution, understands that there should be political debate but laments that differences are splitting villages and even families. "I don't think we should be enslaved to the nature of politics," he says...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Postcard: Bhutan | 3/27/2008 | See Source »

...Enter Holtom, who brought to the DAC his design for a symbol that marchers could carry on banners and signs. He had arrived at the image by combining the semaphore signals for the letters N, for nuclear, and D, for disarmament. The first is a figure with arms held downward and out from both sides; the second, a figure holding one arm above its head while the other points to the ground...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Piece of Our Time | 3/27/2008 | See Source »

...reliable source tells me you bribed a customs official to enter the country," a Nicaraguan customs agent-turned-journalist demanded of the British man who slipped her $10 the day before to speed up his fake immigration paperwork...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Disaster in a Tourist Mecca. Actors Wanted | 3/27/2008 | See Source »

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