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...appearance about a year ago of a new breed of roadside bomb in Iraq. Explosively formed penetrators, or EFPs, proved effective at piercing American armor by firing a concave copper disc from a makeshift cannon, which transformed the slug midair into a molten jet of super-heated metal. Accusations that Iran was shipping the things into Iraq grew louder as U.S. casualties from the weapon rose. But no concrete evidence has emerged in public that Iran was behind the weapons. U.S. officials have revealed no captured shipments of such devices and offered no other proof...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Doubting the Evidence Against Iran | 5/5/2008 | See Source »

...heart - he comes to in the cave of Taliban-like insurgents, whose head-shaved leader (Faran Tahir) would very much appreciate it if Tony could confect a home-made bomb for him. Instead, with the help of a fellow prisoner (Shaun Toub), Tony constructs a heavily armed metal suit, blasts his way out of the cave and resolves to change his nickname from Merchant of Death to semi-pacific Iron Man. "I have more to offer the world," he says, "than making things blow...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: 'Iron Man': A Movie Marvel | 5/1/2008 | See Source »

...Just as it is a myth that women are ‘meant’ to be feminine and men masculine, that penises and vaginas are ‘meant’ for penetrative heterosexual sex (or that mouths, anuses, breasts, feet or leather, silicone, vinyl, rubber, or metal implements are not ‘meant’ for sex at all), it is a myth that ovaries and a uterus are ‘meant’ to birth a child.” Of course people regularly engage in recreational sex in which pregnancy...

Author: By Lucy M. Caldwell | Title: Ars Gratia Artis? | 4/25/2008 | See Source »

Hardened women prisoners batter each other with metal bars in a grimy jail. A corrupt prison warden carries out shady deals in dark streets. Masked riot police storm into the penitentiary machine guns blazing...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Steamy Prison Drama in Telenovela Land | 4/23/2008 | See Source »

...selection of comical shorts, some of which featured Conrad himself in front of the camera. French filmmaker Marie Losier, who directed Conrad in some of these films, was also present.Many of the shorts depicted absurd situations and had a trippy feel. In one, actors emerged from a metal tin of spaghetti wearing pink dresses and were doused in tomato sauce. Then, the container blasted off into space like a spaceship. The silliness of such films, which contrasts with the avant-garde formalism of his earlier projects, was a point of interest for the audience. In the question-and-answer session...

Author: By Betsy L. Mead, CONTRIBUTING WRITERS | Title: HFA Hosts Avant-Garde Filmmaker | 4/11/2008 | See Source »

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