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Iguazu Falls, as Eleanor Roosevelt famously observed, "make the Niagara look like a kitchen faucet." This may be an exaggeration but not by much?after all, the Iguazu Falls are four times wider than Ontario's most famous body of water. Located amid lush rainforest at the border of Brazil and Argentina, they present one of the best (and most deafening) opportunities you will ever have for an encounter with the unbridled power of nature...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Time Traveler | 4/16/2005 | See Source »

...Scoring your] first goal is great, because it’s like you’re opening the door,” Moran said. “You just start the faucet and let the water flow...

Author: By Jonathan P. Hay, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: W. Soccer Rests In Victory | 10/9/2003 | See Source »

...online services, alienating consumers by forcing them to seek out artists by label. Luring back those disgruntled music lovers from file sharing is difficult but vital, says Doug Morris, chairman of Universal Music Group, which slashed CD prices this month. "If you had Coke coming out of the kitchen faucet," he says, "what would you pay for a bottle...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: How to Go Legit | 9/22/2003 | See Source »

...Beijing's main C.-and-R. center before being granted political asylum in the U.S., describes hellish scenes of healthy children and adults and the mentally ill locked up together. "Life in the center was chaotic and filthy," she recalls. "There was no drinking water, just a faucet for 100 people, and food was even more scarce and of lower quality than in my labor camp." Beatings by center staff and inmate trusties were a regular occurrence and, says Tong, "inmates were frequently held for ransom until their families could scrape together the money to buy them out." Indeed, just...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Hostages of the State | 6/16/2003 | See Source »

...clawfoot tub, which had a faucet but no shower attachment for the first month of school...

Author: By Maria S. Pedroza, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Sophomores Living It Up, Presidential Style | 11/8/2002 | See Source »

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