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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...think, truly an easygoing, positive, fun person. How's that for my singles ad? But it wasn't until I started going to Starbucks that I [realized] I am really picky! This is how I like this drink, it's absolutely delicious. It probably has tons of saturated fat, but it's worth every heart attack you'll ever get from it, and it gives me a little bit of a buzz. But if somebody puts melon syrup on it, I am going to throw it away, like a big baby. It's terrible...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Q&A: Best-Selling Author Lisa Scottoline | 11/30/2009 | See Source »

...America is getting into the animal-based biofuel market as well, thanks to U.S. government subsidies. Like Europe, the U.S. has a law that bans dumping raw meat into landfills. In July 2007, energy company, ConocoPhillips teamed up with meat giant Tyson to make biofuel from chicken and pork fats that would otherwise have been added into makeup, pet foods or soaps. Although biofuel produced from animal fat is better suited to fueling industrial boilers than cars, Tyson and ConocoPhillips have come up with a fuel for the "on-road" market. (Read: "Tallying Biofuels' Real Environmental Cost...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Energizer Bunnies: Turning Rabbits into Green Fuel | 11/28/2009 | See Source »

...great sorrow of Irish soccer fans, the fat lady of their sport sang on Friday, dashing what little hope Ireland had left of reviving its vanquished World Cup dreams...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Tainted Victory: French Feel Shame Over Ireland Match | 11/20/2009 | See Source »

...sumptuousness of Ismael’s garden as he describes it—where oranges grow fat and succulent in the blazing sunshine—echoes in his descriptions of the attractive young family living next door. The object of his desire is Geraldina, a wife and mother of two, whom he admires from his vantage point atop a ladder while picking oranges. His wife, Otilia, notes and censures his voyeurism, but Ismael’s desire is compulsive and extends to every young female character we meet. Each is subjected to his scopophilia, described in terms that evoke...

Author: By Grace E. Jackson, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Violence Penetrates Society, the Psyche in ‘Armies’ | 11/20/2009 | See Source »

...even if it's different from Roald Dahl's children's story about a fox clever enough to outwit three mean farmers named Boggis, Bunce and Bean, one fat, one short, one lean (no one can say that just once). Dahl's spirit is there, but the cinematic Fantastic Mr. Fox comes fortified with Andersonian pouting, parental issues, self doubt and philosophical conundrums. "Who am I, Kylie?" Mr. Fox (voiced by George Clooney) muses to the sidekick Anderson has created for him, an opossum voiced by Wally Wolodarksy - then clarifies: "I'm saying this as an existential question." (Read about...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Fantastic Mr. Fox: Wes Anderson's Return to Form | 11/13/2009 | See Source »

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