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Floridians could not have been caught more unaware by Tuesday's massive, afternoon-long blackout. Although temperatures have been unseasonably high this month, they were hardly torrid enough to overload the peninsula's air conditioners. It wasn't hurricane season, either, when tropical storms regularly knock out power lines. It was a tranquil, balmy afternoon by the beach - the sort of "paradise" so many thousands of people migrate here for each winter...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Florida's Blackout: A Warning Sign? | 2/27/2008 | See Source »

...glittering objects and monuments of China to the men and women who made them." To that end, he's a sapient guide through not only the bustling, state-regulated markets, but back down the production line to the small private workshops where many of the goods - some of them knock-offs of wares made in larger imperial facilities - were produced by conscripts, convicts and slaves as well as free artisans...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Great Mall | 2/21/2008 | See Source »

...there's always a person begging for money. "You think, This is a $20 light. So you hope to catch the light. And then you feel guilty for hoping to catch the light," he says. "People say, They'll buy booze. Fair enough. They need it." Clooney, having helped knock off two bottles of red and two bottles of dessert wine-all after drinking heavily in Vegas the night before-is not one to deny someone else alcohol...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: George Clooney: The Last Movie Star | 2/20/2008 | See Source »

...swear by. No—it was what I would describe as reconstituted space pizza, in a personal-sized tin trays. But it was pizza. And I was an easily pleased second grader, who didn’t think past the fact that a boy would soon try to knock me off the monkey bars onto spiky tanbark during recess...

Author: By Nicola C. Perlman, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Hot for Cold Pizza | 2/20/2008 | See Source »

...spoke to Sergeant Rory Martin, another outpatient. She asked him to check to see whether her husband had applied on Wednesday, as required, for his weekend pass. When they spoke again four hours later, Martin told Melissa that Cassidy had not applied for a weekend pass and that a knock on his door had gotten no response...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Dying Under the Army's Care | 2/14/2008 | See Source »

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