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...Revenge of the Nerds” that she has are pretty awesome. She’s also got a bunch of random mixes from some guy named Ben which are pretty solid.  Basically, she’s got a lot of music that you could throw a killer late-90s dance party with...

Author: By John K. Ames, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: iTunes Dialogue | 2/19/2004 | See Source »

...directorial credit, Makdee, a children's movie about a witch who can turn people into animals. Rather than Bollywood's customary priority of abs, busts and nifty dance steps, he deliberately chose actors with theatrical training for the Macbeth retake. Irrfan Khan plays the violent but vulnerable Maqbool, a killer ultimately consumed by his conscience, and it's a performance that fulfills the promise Khan demonstrated in 2001's The Warrior. Pankaj Kapoor as the paunchy Mafia don borrows heavily (and successfully) from Marlon Brando and Al Pacino. Bollywood grandees Om Puri and Naseeruddin Shah play the clairvoyant cops; both...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Lights! Sound! Fury! | 2/16/2004 | See Source »

...mystery. Every spywatcher knows about Bulgarian defector Georgi Markov, who was assassinated in London in 1978 in a ploy that James Bond or Austin Powers would appreciate: a shadowy stalker jabbed Markov in the leg with an umbrella rigged to inject a pellet of ricin under his skin (the killer was never found, but the KGB and the Bulgarian secret service were prime suspects...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Homegrown Terror | 2/16/2004 | See Source »

Every 45 seconds, someone in America has a stroke; every three minutes, someone dies of one. That translates into 700,000 strokes and 165,000 deaths each year, making ischemia (the technical term for the most common type of stroke) the nation's No. 3 killer. Even among survivors, strokes can exact a terrible toll: aftereffects range from difficulty walking, speaking and carrying out the everyday activities of life to depression and paralysis...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Health: Stroke Of Luck | 2/16/2004 | See Source »

Precisely how it?s doing that is baffling experts, for the killer, known as devil facial tumor disease (DFTD), is as mysterious as it is disfiguring. Today Mooney?s team are checking their 50 traps - lengths of PVC pipe pierced with air vents and nestled in shady spots - measuring, weighing and attaching microchips to healthy and sick devils as part of a new statewide monitoring program. There?s still no diagnostic test, so the team must check the face and gums of every animal, disinfecting each trap as they empty it. But there?s no missing the disease...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sympathy for the Devil | 2/15/2004 | See Source »

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