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...house has a genuinely lived-in feel, that's because its mastermind, the eccentric American artist Dennis Severs, resided here from 1979 until his death in 1999 as its historic inhabitants would have - without heat, electricity or running water. The California-born Severs shunned the 20th century, but by turning a dilapidated house into an artistic project he managed to bring the past back to life. His dream, he said, was for visitors to feel as though they had stepped into a painting. Fellow artists believe he succeeded; David Hockney called 18 Folgate Street "stunning," and actors regularly visit...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Historical Drama | 10/10/2006 | See Source »

...clear we are flying over a major international thoroughfare. Hundreds of shiny footpaths and tire tracks weave through the desert below, where the temperature on the ground routinely reaches 115? F in the summer. You need to drink a gallon of water an hour to survive in heat like that, and the illegal aliens and smugglers who pounded these paths into the desert had another 80 miles to go before they reached the nearest paved road. But parched terrain wasn't the only peril they faced: these tracks all head smack into a live-fire range where Marine...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Illegals in the Line of Fire | 10/10/2006 | See Source »

...Ralph Basham, to see this area for himself. Faced with the vast terrain, Basham seemed convinced a fence was not the answer. But another thought dawned as he looked down on shimmering black lava fields below. "If they're willing to go through 80 miles of desert in this heat, you can't do much to stop them...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Illegals in the Line of Fire | 10/10/2006 | See Source »

...trimmed fur coats-Cleopatra was, in the words of the drug traffickers she battled, "10 miles of bad road." Before her career ebbed in the '80s, the 6-ft. 2-in. Dobson went on to appear in other films of the genre, notably the women-in-prison film Chained Heat, as well as on TV (Buck Rogers in the 25th Century...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones | 10/9/2006 | See Source »

...Gets Nervous in Tennessee In the race for the Senate, Harold Ford wasn't supposed to have much appeal outside his home base of Memphis. But now that he is in a virtual dead heat with his Republican opponent, the race is getting down and dirty

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Campaign '06: On the Attack in Illinois | 10/9/2006 | See Source »

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