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...Chinese-speaking world, and the basic ingredient is in such demand that nests are sometimes called "white gold" or the "caviar of the East." In Bangkok, an 11-oz. (300 g) box can cost $2,600, while so-called health drinks comprising just 1.1% nest sell for $4 a jar. Aficionados attribute nests with the power to treat everything from cold sores to tuberculosis, and to boost both longevity and sexual prowess...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Bird Bonanza | 7/20/2009 | See Source »

...chief prosecutor Stephen Rapp insisted that Taylor was "an exceptional violator of human rights" who steadily provided weapons and support to the RUF in exchange for blood diamonds. Witnesses testified about arms smuggled from Liberia to Sierra Leone in sacks of rice and diamonds sent back in a mayonnaise jar. But Taylor rebutted the claims. "Never, ever did I receive - whether it is [in] mayonnaise or coffee or whatever jar - any diamonds from the RUF," he said. "It is a lie, a diabolical...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: 'Lies and Rumors': Liberia's Charles Taylor on the Stand | 7/14/2009 | See Source »

...fewer than 20 days, the second Transformers has overtaken the first one in its entire domestic theatrical run and entered the all-time top 20, passing every Harry Potter and Pirates of the Caribbean movie. (Is this the crappiest movie in that exalted category? Even worse than the Jar Jar Binks-infected Star Wars: Episode I - The Phanton Menace? Discuss...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Box-Office Weekend: Brüno a One-Day Wonder? | 7/13/2009 | See Source »

...drove back to the hospital where, thanks to my experiences, the food looked good. When we got home the following day, Sara gave us a truly beautiful placentapill presentation: a pretty glass jar, a card, a CD of lullabies and a satin pouch. In which was part of my son's umbilical cord, fashioned into a heart. When I asked Sara what the hell I was supposed to do with that, she said people often use it to keep a baby's first tooth and lock of hair. That's when I realized that placenta-eating is really just...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Afterbirth: It's What's For Dinner | 7/3/2009 | See Source »

...risk of squashing an Autobot, one of the good robot aliens, as well. If either Mudflap or Skids, a pair of new characters who speak in an appallingly offensive ghetto patois, were my victims, I could live with myself. The world doesn't need more versions of Jar Jar Binks. But what if it were the Autobot leader, Optimus Prime? Optimus truly cares about the future of the human race, unlike the Obama Administration, which Bay represents as so prissy and antiwar it just wants the alien robots off the planet. Bay's Obama would probably drive his Prius over...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen Falls Short | 6/24/2009 | See Source »

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