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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...analysis to distinguish French fungi from Chinese without a taste test. Although French regulations call for a truffle's origins to be clearly marked, truffle experts say many vendors either ignore the rules or engage in outright mislabeling. France's fraud-control directorate carries out random DNA testing to flush out faux-truffle dealers. Anyone caught intending to deceive the consumer with a Chinese truffle may be fined $1,300. Still, there are few inspectors and many truffles. "If the consumer is properly informed that they are eating a Chinese truffle, there is no problem," says Michel Courvoisier, director...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Truffle Scuffle | 4/17/2005 | See Source »

...years you are: Curing Asian flush...

Author: By FM Staff, | Title: Scoped | 4/14/2005 | See Source »

...order as the celebration degenerated into a looting spree. Stores were smashed open, and one pilfering soldier was shot dead. A few hours later, a spokesman began broadcasting on radio to announce a twelve-hour curfew. Gunfire could be heard after the "bloodless coup" as rebel troops tried to flush Obote loyalists out of a Kampala barracks...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Uganda: Pendulum Swing | 4/12/2005 | See Source »

Later came callers from the Red Planet. In Invaders from Mars, they manipulate humans by implanting devices in their heads (such a good idea that a remake started filming a few weeks ago). In The Day Mars Invaded the Earth, they incinerate an entire family and flush their ashes down the swimming-pool drain. In The War of the Worlds, the aliens turn their deadly rays on everything in sight. "Welcome to California!" say three friendly Chamber of Commerce types as they walk toward the Martian craft. Zap! More ashes. A minister tries to soothe them with the 23rd Psalm...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Show Business: Close Encounters, but Unkind | 4/12/2005 | See Source »

...Dream”, the latest single from Dizzee Rascal’s sophomore album Showtime, is so good it’s apt to inspire a religion. I kid you not: this video will flush the scales from your eyes and show you a better...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: POP SCREEN: Music Videos | 4/8/2005 | See Source »

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