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Polyresin toilet seats from ATH Import dress up the commode with butterflies, fish and other decorative 3-D scenes. It's your money...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Home: The Future Of Homemaking | 3/21/2005 | See Source »

...antelope or reindeer, with heart-shaped leaves festooning their antlers. From 4th century Datong, in Shanxi province, comes a bronze cup decorated with vines and with the early-Christian motif of a boy carrying a lamb. The cup looks Roman, but is likely an expertly cast copy of an import...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Glorious Mess | 3/20/2005 | See Source »

...Actually, he's a duck, and a rather cowardly one at that. Well, he's sort of a duck, if ducks had arms and legs and wore vests. He's the central character of Joann Sfar and Lewis Trondheim's delightful sword and sorcery comedy series, "Dungeon," a French import, the second volume of which has just been released by NBM ($15). Imagine if the Muppets did Middle Earth and you'll have a pretty good idea of what makes "Dungeon" so charming and so wildly popular in other parts of the world...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: "Dungeon"s and Ducks | 3/19/2005 | See Source »

...hsiung, an unemployed man who blamed the President for his economic woes. The only problem: Chen Yi-hsiung is dead. Police say he drowned off the southern city of Tainan 10 days after the March 19 shooting, a death now considered a suicide. It's a case with huge import: hours after the attempted assassination, President Chen won re-election by a mere 0.2% margin, a vote that prompted large demonstrations in Taipei...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Who Shot Chen Shui-Bian? | 3/14/2005 | See Source »

...Europe and the U.S. have begun passing off the Chinese truffles as P?rigord's black diamonds. The deception has roiled the luxury-food industry, particularly as European harvests have dwindled. Last season, when a heat wave cut the P?rigord bounty from the usual 50 tons to 9 tons, the import of Chinese truffles skyrocketed to an estimated 30 tons from 20 tons the year before. This season, the U.S. is facing its own Chinese truffle deluge; a strong euro has sent the price of French truffle imports up 30% in the past year, leading some restaurants and gourmet-store owners...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Truffle Kerfuffle | 2/14/2005 | See Source »

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