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...Sara has to cook the placenta at the placenta owner's home. But to my great relief, she brought her own equipment, gloves, sponges and even more detergent than I'd hoped, scrubbing constantly as she worked. If I ever kill a man in my own home, I am totally calling the placenta lady. (See the top 10 scientific discoveries...

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

...scrub their wish lists of anything that might be seen as unnecessary or wasteful. White House officials were happy to sign off on bridge repairs and roadwork on busy intersections and new runway signals for strapped airports. But they have spent a lot of time trying to kill projects that sound like red alerts on Fox News: a plan for military-cemetery headstone-straightening was scrapped, as was a request for a $10,000 refrigerator to house fish sperm in South Dakota. Gone too was $7 million for Interior Department aircraft to study bird migration. Transportation Secretary Ray LaHood persuaded...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: What Happened to the Stimulus? | 7/1/2009 | See Source »

...unanimously approved a $620,000 skateboard-park renovation in a rough neighborhood, half-pipe and all. "It's an incredible opportunity," says local councilman Robert Garcia. "This is near and dear to my heart," noted California Senator Barbara Boxer on the Senate floor. Biden's staff has battled to kill the project behind the scenes, and the outcome is still unclear. Meanwhile, on other requests, Republicans quibbled with Biden's definition of prudent. Some $3.4 million will be spent on a Florida wildlife crossing at a highway with one of the highest rates of turtle mortality in the world...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: What Happened to the Stimulus? | 7/1/2009 | See Source »

...could count Bullock's above-average pictures on one hand and not use the thumb. Her two early hits, plus A Time to Kill and the sinfully enjoyable Miss Congeniality, would just about exhaust the list. Even adding the very debatable large-ensemble Crash wouldn't give her a high batting average, considering her subpar romantic comedies (Two Weeks Notice), dramas (The Lake House) and female-bonding weepies (Divine Secrets of the Ya-Ya Sisterhood). Yet every year or so, Bullock goes back in front of the camera, trying to prove there's a place in movies for a star...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sandra Bullock Should Have Said No to The Proposal | 6/29/2009 | See Source »

...poster in a bikini, which he would sell and give the star a percentage of the profits. My understanding is that the other two turned him down. Farrah had made a deal in which she had control of the image - she got to pick the picture and kill everything that wasn't used - and this guy said, "I've hired two photographers, had two photo shoots, spent all this money, and she hates the pictures. She said, 'Call Bruce McBroom...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Fawcett Photographer Recalls an Iconic Shoot | 6/25/2009 | See Source »

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