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...BATTERY Franklin also discovered the difference between conductors and insulators of electricity. He used a device called a Leyden jar to hold and discharge electricity-even using some to kill a turkey for a feast. Wiring together charged plates, and later jars, he created and named an electrical battery...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Great Inventor: A Beautiful Mind | 7/7/2003 | See Source »

...team leaders. "We didn't want to run through, do our thing and preach," says Sarah. "We wanted to live." They founded an adventure-travel business and made friends. They talked sports and taxes and children with their neighbors, went camping with them and gathered with them on Muslim feast days. They didn't hide their faith, but they didn't press it on others, so when a friend's friend who had taken a Christian correspondence course approached them on behalf of his family, they shared Christ on his terms. "They pursued us," Henry insists. The two clans grew...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Missionaries Under Cover | 6/30/2003 | See Source »

...After war broke out, a perceptible gloom descended on the ship, so the master ordered a party, a barbecue on the portside deck. Victor outdid himself, orchestrating a splendid, meaty feast with all the fixings. He consulted me, as the ship's temporary resident Texan, for advice about making barbecue sauce; in the end, he stretched it with leftover watermelon. (Strange, but perfectly good form: as any Texan will tell you, you can throw whatever you like into a barbecue sauce...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Perfect Snore | 4/28/2003 | See Source »

...divorced and his father and stepmother are still alive, though no one knows how to reach them. Ali said that under Saddam Hussein it was difficult for his family to earn a living, but there were moments of joy, as when the family went to the park on feast days and played soccer...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Boy In The Photograph | 4/21/2003 | See Source »

...CARPET BRUNCH,” the tent proclaimed in HUDS’ signature hyperbolic prose. “Sunday, March 16. Come work the red carpet and cast your ballot for this year’s Oscars. Take a walk among the stars and enjoy a feast fit for a diva who has just captured the coveted golden statue. Catch up on some films past and present, and be sure to enter your guesses for this year’s winners. Your predictions may win you some classic movie memorabilia. Thank you to the Academy?...

Author: By Phoebe Kosman, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: The Red Carpet Treatment | 3/19/2003 | See Source »

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