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But once you get to plutonium, with 94 protons, you've run out of naturally occurring elements. They may have once existed, but they're radioactive, and decay so quickly that there's none left on Earth, or, as far as we know, in space. Or there wasn't, rather...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Birth of a New Element | 10/16/2006 | See Source »

A decade ago, France exported three times as much wine as all the so-called New World producers combined. Today France has been overtaken and sells about 15% less than they do. The pummeling is especially bruising on home turf: Europe now imports almost as much wine as it exports...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Big Spill | 10/16/2006 | See Source »

Whether it's Brazil, China or Russia, it's tough to find a television market where CSI: Miami is not on the prime-time schedule. Although the two other shows in producer Jerry Bruckheimer's franchise--CSI: Crime Scene Investigation and CSI: New York--are also hits, the lush, exotic...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Media: The American Way | 10/15/2006 | See Source »

But that's not quite true. There aren't very many people--ebony, ivory or other--who have Obama's distinctive portfolio of talents, or what he calls his "exotic" family history. His parentage was the first thing he chose to tell us about himself when he delivered his knockout...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Fresh Face | 10/15/2006 | See Source »

Long before his run-in with the Malibu sheriff's department, Mel Gibson found himself in a very different kind of fix. Back in 2003, while filming The Passion of the Christ, the devout Catholic director couldn't find a real-life priest to his liking. The problem wasn't...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Return of the Latin Mass | 10/12/2006 | See Source »

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