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...cocaine. Over the past five years, the U.S. has got Bolivia to uproot almost all of its coca shrubs--only to see Morales, 42, and his left-wing Movement to Socialism engineer an astonishing protest this year that could force Bolivia's next government to let the plants flourish again. "The coca leaf," says Morales, whose party took the second largest bloc of seats in parliamentary elections in June, "is our new national flag...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Taking the Side of The Coca Farmer | 8/5/2002 | See Source »

...bone of contention is not easy to find. So I turn to a local resident for guidance. She directs me to the stela's resting place-an open, peak-roofed pavilion hidden behind a high wall only a few paces from her home. "The taiwangbei," she pronounces, with a flourish. "The stela of the great King." That's how the locals know it. Which King and of what kingdom she is not entirely sure. "An ancient kingdom," she explains with a dismissive brush of her hand. She tells me instead how she works during the week in Shenyang...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Detour | 7/15/2002 | See Source »

Back in 1983, when Dr. John Mendelsohn applied for a National Cancer Institute grant to study growth-factor receptors in tumors, he was flatly rejected. His idea--to create antibodies that would find and bind to tumor cells, blocking their ability to recruit the nutrients they need to flourish--was considered unproved and risky. "He had a vision going way back that antibodies might have an important role in the treatment of cancer," says Dr. Stuart Kornfeld, one of Mendelsohn's mentors at Washington University in St. Louis...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: What About the Drug? | 6/24/2002 | See Source »

...flow of talent will continue, because the game continues to flourish beyond the professional level. American youth soccer has been criticized as merely a weekend pastime for most kids and their "soccer moms." And it is. Yet select teams from all over the country?even in Texas, that gridiron football mecca?are developing talent just the way the vaunted youth programs of Holland and France do. And consider the population the U.S. can draw upon...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Superpower Status? | 6/24/2002 | See Source »

...their arms swinging wider (right, left, four times each). They stop, twirl, clap hands simultaneously and (on "Oh what a break") do a ten-tap strut to the front of the gazebo, landing in synch on the right foot. The first time, Ginger had to undercut Fred's flourish; this time she's with...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: That Old Feeling: A Stellar Astaire | 6/22/2002 | See Source »

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