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...that foxglove in my wife's garden but again, I doubt it. It's confusing, but this I know: when they're really sick, the naturopaths, the homeopaths, the osteopaths, chiropractors and acupuncturists - they all come to us. Even my dog slouches over and puts his head on my lap...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Before You Pop That Pill | 8/11/2006 | See Source »

...those who don't savor Ferrell's brand of comic bravura, there are exchanges like this, in which Ricky Bobby - who bleeds red, white and blue while not chugging beer - tries to lap Jean Girard (Sacha Cohen), the gay Frenchman who sips espresso while racing his car, sponsored by Perrier...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Ferrell, Fast and Funny | 8/6/2006 | See Source »

...catalogue the various offenses I might suspect of a hitchhiker. Armed theft, vandalism, and child-molestation come quickly to mind. I look over at the 10-year-old girl and even though Simon’s arm is just resting on his own thigh, I move it onto my lap. “‘Texas Chainsaw Massacre’ is too gory for me,” the doughy-faced woman proclaims with a chuckle. “That’s just not my type of scary movie.” “Me neither...

Author: By Francesca M. Mari, | Title: The Hitchhiking Type | 7/13/2006 | See Source »

...child on your lap?" one woman said, and then another asked, and another. The cameras flashed, and old women hugged her shoulders or said, "Bless your heart." A little girl asked, "Mommy, is that the girl from TV?" One old man told her that he had lost two sons and had given up on living but that her story made him ashamed to give...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Jessica Lynch: Book Excerpt: Wrong Turn In The Desert | 7/12/2006 | See Source »

...cried. It was not so much the pain but the feeling, the desolation, of being alone and helpless. She had never been alone. She had slept within reach of her baby sister. She was from a family where her mother would pull one of her teenage daughters into her lap and hold her just because it felt nice. Even after she had left home there had been Lori and Ruben...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Jessica Lynch: Book Excerpt: Wrong Turn In The Desert | 7/12/2006 | See Source »

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