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...airport manager came striding out and invited us over to his house for a cup of tea. He lived in a bungalow on the airport grounds, and he collected birds: Amazonian parrots as bright as tropical fruit and doves with a smear of crimson on their breasts that looked as if they'd been shot through the heart. They fluttered around crazily every time one of the Pakistani MiG fighters screeched overhead...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Where Osama Is a Rock Star | 10/12/2001 | See Source »

...airport manager came striding out and invited us over to his house for a cup of tea. He lived in a bungalow on the airport grounds, and he collected birds: Amazonian parrots as bright as tropical fruit and doves with a smear of crimson on their breasts that looked as if they'd been shot through the heart. They fluttered around crazily every time one of the Pakistani MiG fighters screeched overhead...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Where Osama Is a Rock Star | 10/11/2001 | See Source »

...Mark Fichtel, the exchange's CEO, says, "We were incredibly lucky." But it wasn't luck that six days later traders were back at work bidding on coffee, cocoa and orange juice futures at a makeshift facility just across the East River in Queens. That quick relocation was the fruit of a detailed contingency plan put in place nearly seven years ago and constantly refined, at a cost of more than $300,000 a year...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Corporate Security: Girding Against New Risks | 10/8/2001 | See Source »

When Colorado resident Juan Sanchez-Marchez opened his 20-ounce bottle of Ora Potency Fruit Punch last week, he found an extra special surprise: three inches of a severed penis. The source is a mystery because authorities have detemined it must have been in the bottle for at least a year...

Author: By FM Staff, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Fifteen Minutes | 10/4/2001 | See Source »

Most of the poems in his newest collection, Night Picnic, start by gradually revealing something plain and recognizable, like a fruit stand, a church or a restaurant. Once the scene is set, the poem will ask you to look at it in an odd way, with an effect that is sometimes fantastic in the clearest way. The payoff is the jolt you get from being forced into a new way of seeing that is somehow off—sometimes violently...

Author: By Jascha Hoffman, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Making the Odd From the Ordinary | 9/28/2001 | See Source »

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