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...years, he’s stretched out the hole to its present size—capable of accommodating a fork. To demonstrate how he did this, he deftly pushes his tongue about in his mouth and pops out two thick metal stems. He then easily slips his index finger through the fleshy chasm. He wiggles...

Author: By Esther I. Yi, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Off Harvard Time | 10/22/2008 | See Source »

...accounts, McCain's national campaign staff has done a dismal job coordinating with the usually potent GOP machine on the ground in Florida. "This is a Florida campaign being run out of Washington," says a concerned GOP official in Tallahassee, "and it's remarkable how little it has its finger on the pulse of this state...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: What's Got McCain Down in Florida | 10/20/2008 | See Source »

...locked in a cell and raped repeatedly. “Five or six soldiers would come every day. Some insisted on not wearing condoms,” Kang said. “Once when I protested, he hit me hard on my head and broke my finger. From that day on my nose bleeds all the time. Whenever someone got sick or died they would just drag the girl out like a dog.” Kang was most emotional when talking about her homeland, which she said she did not see again until 2000. “Maybe...

Author: By Carola A. Cintron-arroyo, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Former Sex Slave Speaks Out | 10/17/2008 | See Source »

...altogether; every interaction now occurs via a glass touch pad. To select something, you simply push down on the glass pad. Or as Jobs said, "The whole trackpad is the button." This generation of touch pads, by the way, lets users do a lot more with one hand. One finger directs the mouse, two fingers enlarge and reduce images, three fingers allow you to rapidly side scroll through documents, and swiping four fingers across the pad manages all the windows one has open on the screen...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Apple's Latest Hack: Aluminum Computers | 10/14/2008 | See Source »

...debate - a fellow named Oliver Clark wanted to know how the Wall Street bailout would help his friends who were in trouble. McCain's answer was all over the place and obscure in a classic Washington way; he detoured into blaming Fannie Mae and Freddy Mac and pointing his finger at Obama and "his cronies" for supporting those two incomprehensible institutions. Obama, by contrast, brought the bailout home in simple language: "Well, Oliver, first, let me tell you what's in the rescue package for you. Right now, the credit markets are frozen up, and what that means...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Obama Surge: Will It Last? | 10/9/2008 | See Source »

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