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...pain - and it seems that people may use curse words by instinct. Indeed, as any owner of a banged shin, whacked funny bone or stubbed toe knows, dancing the agony jig - and shouting its profane theme tune - are about as automatic as the response to a doctor's reflex hammer. (See 20 ways to get healthy and stay that...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Bleep! My Finger! Why Swearing Helps Ease Pain | 7/16/2009 | See Source »

...Does the Pakistan military have the ability to fight that war? What is your strategy to help them? I don't think the hammer-and-anvil metaphor works here, because frankly, there is not enough force on either side to be hammer or anvil. I do think that as we both do counterinsurgency, it has a less obvious controlling factor against the people who operate. What we are doing is reducing the relative safe haven on either side. There is a long way to go with this, though. I don't want to give the impression that we are near...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: TIME's Interview with General Stanley McChrystal | 7/8/2009 | See Source »

...year, governments from around the world will meet in Copenhagen hopefully to hammer out a new treaty - the successor to the Kyoto Protocol, which expires in 2012 - to reduce global greenhouse-gas emissions. Their lack of time aside, diplomats face a very large, very immovable hurdle on the way to a new Kyoto...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Study: A Fairer Way to Cut Global CO2 Emissions | 7/7/2009 | See Source »

...Hammer (MCHammer): I have no words.. I loved Michael Jackson.. RIP... I will be mourning my friend , brother, mentor and inspiration.. He gave me and my family hope. I would never have been me without...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Remembering Michael Jackson on Twitter | 6/25/2009 | See Source »

...Although most of the East German fashion underground's protagonists didn't consider themselves political, their celebration of individuality and ostentatious narcissism certainly was. The Mob was not afraid to play around with socialist symbols, such as the hammer and sickle, or to use Russian army wear as the basis for its designs. Doing so was not without risk in a country where the secret police would ban you from Alexanderplatz, the East German capital's central square, for nothing more than wearing a little glitter spray in your hair. (See the Green Design...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Fearless Fashion in the Former East Germany | 6/24/2009 | See Source »

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