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...about eight dead bodies lying on the ground, and seven or eight other people badly wounded," Chilton said. "One guy had no torso, just legs and chest held together by nothing but skin. There was another girl with her leg gone, and a guy with two legs gone, trying to get up. He didn't realize he had no legs." There was relatively little blood; the explosion was so hot it cauterized most of the wounds...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Killings in Sharm El Sheikh | 7/23/2005 | See Source »

...number over the next year. Disney movies and TV programs, like the popular Dragon Club series, appear on local television. With 24 hours of programming a week, Disney claims to be the largest foreign provider of films for Chinese TV. Disney's wholesome fare has given the company a leg up on getting its movies shown in Chinese cinemas. In 1995 The Lion King became one of the first Western films to premiere in theaters since the communists took over China in 1949. More than 15 other movies have followed, including The Incredibles and National Treasure--an impressive record, given...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Disney's Great Leap into China | 7/11/2005 | See Source »

Perhaps that’s why I’ve found myself spending so much of my summer in the car. When ACL surgery confined me to crutches, I was grateful every day that my right leg was unaffected so I could continue to drive. Even before the surgery, most of my visits to New York were spent driving around in my car. I’d pick up friends, and we’d drive for hours listening to CDs only we could appreciate. In the days before college, my car was the one space where I felt...

Author: By Reva P. Minkoff, | Title: Why We Choose Torture | 7/8/2005 | See Source »

That meant making more ducks in China, Pakistan and elsewhere to lower costs. Springs can't always be cheapest, Bowles concedes. Instead she hopes that mirror manufacturing, or duplicating much of its product line domestically, will give the company a leg up. "If a customer has a spike in demand or a product starts to sell ahead of forecasting, it takes longer to get it if there's a 90-day supply chain from China," says Bowles. Her U.S. plants can ship in days...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: By a Thread | 7/7/2005 | See Source »

...Booth leaps to the stage, but his spur catches on a draped flag. He breaks his leg in the fall. Fleeing, Booth shouts "Sic semper tyrannis" (Thus always to tyrants), the state motto of Virginia. Some say he added, "The South is avenged...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Life Behind the Legend | 6/27/2005 | See Source »

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