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Costa Rica, largely immune to the dictatorships, corruption and grinding poverty that mark so many of its neighbors, has long been considered the ?Switzerland of Central America.? But in recent years it has been plagued by a moribund economy and a string of presidential bribery scandals that have made it...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Dodging a Bullet in Costa Rica | 3/8/2006 | See Source »

Nevertheless, an orgy it wasn’t, as some standard of propriety held sway amid the bumping and grinding.

Author: By Julie Y. Rhee, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Debauchery Comes Again | 2/15/2006 | See Source »

Even more amazing than Clarkson's emergence as a credible pop singer is that her glitz-free approach--she favors hook-filled, unpretentious songs, like the addictive Since U Been Gone, delivered with a vocal minimalism alien to her dolphin-shrieking peers--has made her kind of, well, cool. Since...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miss Independent | 2/5/2006 | See Source »

I don’t like to grind. Neither do I really enjoy “bumping” with boys on the dance-floor. Of course there have been more than several situations when saying no to getting down seemed impossible and when I felt forced to step in...

Author: By Victoria Ilyinsky, | Title: Sex, Swing, and Stereotypes | 12/8/2005 | See Source »

In a June 24 letter to the DoC, University President Lawrence H. Summers wrote that implementing the restrictions would “have the practical effect of grinding research to a halt” by making impractical administrative demands of the University’s faculty and staff.

Author: By Virginia A. Fisher, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Lab Regulations Upset Schools | 12/8/2005 | See Source »

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