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...guides in a cigar-shaped fiberglass boat into the swamps last month, a Nigerian naval officer aboard a warship in the port city of Warri warned me not to go on. "Even we don't go there," he said, motioning along the Warri River. Then he slowly drew a finger across his throat...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nigeria's Deadly Days | 5/14/2006 | See Source »

...Foley Damage Assessment - So Far With its finger pointing and mishandling of the scandal, the Republican leadership has given already disaffected voters another reason to throw it out of power

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Spy Master Cracks the Whip | 5/7/2006 | See Source »

Over the next two years, Gass got the same response from every other major power-tool company. He was stunned. "Everybody in woodworking knows someone who's lost a finger or had an accident," says Gass. "I felt this technology should really be out there." He and two other lawyers from his firm launched SawStop in 2001, setting up shop in his barn and contracting with a manufacturer in Taiwan to build the devices. With about $5 million in sales, 16 employees and nearly 50 reports from customers of undetached digits, SawStop is thriving...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: SMALL BUSINESS: An Edgy New Idea | 5/7/2006 | See Source »

...Another story where somebody finds something in their food: At a T.G.I. Friday's in Indiana, a male customer finds a human finger in his hamburger, and the management was terribly, terribly apologetic. They said, 'Oh, my God, that's supposed to be in the chili!'" --DAVID LETTERMAN...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Punchlines: May 15, 2006 | 5/7/2006 | See Source »

...dugout before the game, utility man and sometimes reliever Max Warren showed me several of the most common curveball grips. He said I had to apply pressure with my middle finger and spin the ball off that digit. He advised me, though, to borrow a ball and see what grip suited me best...

Author: By Jonathan Lehman, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: IN LEHMAN'S TERMS: Essence of Curveball Hard to Capture | 5/4/2006 | See Source »

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