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...Ponyo has interspecies powers and a low immunity system. Sosuke has cut his finger breaking the jar; she heals it with her touch, and in briefly tasting his blood, she starts to become human. She sprouts rudimentary hands and feet; for an instant she looks like a child's drawing of a chicken. She also develops a taste for the things humans eat. Mmmm, ham! - more savory than plankton. And in one of the film's many wonderful vignettes, she enjoys her first sip of honeyed tea. Ponyo is accepted into the household by Sosuke's mother Lisa (Tomoko Yamaguchi...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Ponyo: More Ani-Magic from Miyazaki | 9/2/2008 | See Source »

...made Palin the Frank Serpico of Alaska politics: she publicly ratted out her state party chairman; whupped the good old boys' network, as she likes to put it, in a gubernatorial primary; and fought a general election in which the scandal-stained state GOP didn't lift a finger on her behalf. She won only because she had the enthusiastic backing of independents and grass-roots activists...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Mayor Palin: A Rough Record | 9/2/2008 | See Source »

...patriotic songs being broadcast from creaky loudspeakers that, in an earlier era, had been used to threaten democracy protestors. At one point, a drunken man with his undershirt pulled up to air his belly weaved up to me, beer bottle in hand. "Hey, foreigner," he called out, waggling his finger in my face. "China...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: China Play | 8/28/2008 | See Source »

...ball to him. "Everyone wants to talk about NBA players as selfish, as arrogant," Bryant says. "What you saw was a team today." With three minutes left, Spain cut the U.S. lead to five, but Bryant sank another three as Fernandez fouled him. Four point play. He put finger over his mouth: shush up, critics. Ugly Americanism? Not here. With so much at stake for Team U.S.A., you can excuse a little celebration...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Delivering on LeBron's Guarantee | 8/24/2008 | See Source »

...Emmons moved his gun into position, the bullet left the barrel prematurely. "The only thing I can figure is that my finger touched the trigger and set it off," Emmons says. "It was an accident." His shot went wild, and Emmons scored a 4.4. Two bullets, two brushes with Olympic infamy. "I walked away and was like, 'Crap, it happened again,' " he says. "I thought, 'Goddam, this is crazy...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Coping with a Crap Shoot | 8/18/2008 | See Source »

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