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...trial to address the allegations, and her reps won't comment on who leaked them, but their disclosure means she'll have less bargaining power come settlement time. Coincidentally, since Sir Paul just applied to trademark his name for use on scads of products from vegetarian food to panty hose, he might want to consider McCartney? gag orders...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: Oct. 30, 2006 | 10/22/2006 | See Source »

...adapt to each others' way of thinking. "We spent the first month just trying to agree on vocabulary," says Torres. "Were we 'cooking in a vacuum' or 'vacuum cooking'?" Within months, however, they had completed the first prototype, an ungainly contraption whose three pieces were joined by long hoses and cables. "We called it our garage model," says Martínez, "because it looked like something a mechanic would put together." So dubious was the machine's appearance that, when the team was stopped for a road inspection on its way to present the Gastrovac at a conference...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Adoring A Vacuum | 9/26/2006 | See Source »

...adds. "If you?re a good soldier, you?ll be a bad civilian." Sometimes the transition is fatal. When Jeff Lucey came back from Iraq, his loving family noticed the change, his withdrawal inside his troubled skull. Within a few months, he had put a loop in a garden hose and hanged himself. Only death ended his nightmares...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Dixie Chicks and the Good Soldiers | 9/17/2006 | See Source »

...haunt the men who saw or committed them. The second half is about the challenges these soldiers faced when they returned home, many of them with damaged bodies, most of them forced to relive their nightmares every night. One young man came back and hanged himself with a garden hose; another, fearful of demons attacking him, sleeps with a gun under...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Movies: Coming Home Isn't Easy | 9/17/2006 | See Source »

...inspector cried when he saw the devastation of Holly Beach. Yet, his claim was ruled "insufficient damage." His wife, Loretta, says they have appealed four times, but she's giving up. She sits on the steps of their trailer, drowning a new avocado tree with water from a garden hose. There used to be 40 palm trees bordering the property, she says. Now there are two. Loretta says she's having a bad day. All she can think about is moving - but they don't have anywhere else to go. "Hurricane Rita never happened," Sonny says. "It was just Katrina...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Hurricane Rita's Toxic Wake | 8/29/2006 | See Source »

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