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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...Terry Sanderson, the society's president, says the group started the online de-baptism initiative five years ago to mock the practice of baptizing infants too young to consent to religious rites. Their web site invites visitors to "Liberate yourself from the Original Mumbo-Jumbo that liberated you from the Original Sin you never had" and allows them to print out a paper certificate that uses quasi-formal language to "reject baptism's creeds and other such superstitions." But in recent months, as tens of thousands began to download the certificate, organizers realized that they had struck a chord with...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: De-Baptism Gains a Following in Britain | 4/14/2009 | See Source »

...street dancing and clothes,” said Moonlit M. Wang ’10, the creative director of Street Culture. During this segment, the models alternated between Chinese, Japanese, and Korean street dance styles. In a high-point of the performance, the audience erupted in applause during a mock dance-off between male and female models. The student designs explored both traditional and avant-garde styles. Xinran Yuan ’10 used puffy textured fabrics which amplified her models’ figures. Helen Tsim ’10 created long, silky dresses that recalled high school proms. With...

Author: By Jack A. Holkeboer, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Third Annual Identities Fashion Show Explores Clothing and Culture | 4/13/2009 | See Source »

NICKELBACK wins big at Canadian Grammys. This is why we mock you, Canada...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Pop Chart | 4/7/2009 | See Source »

Though Europeans mock Americans for having no real culture of their own, there are certain values one never questions in this country. We treasure convenience, as symbolized by drive-through fast food, self-understanding, manifest by easy access to astrology charts at the check-out stand, and—most importantly—the importance of setting goals for the future, embodied in the American dream itself...

Author: By Jessica A. Sequeira | Title: Out With the Checklist | 4/5/2009 | See Source »

...where they store bodies that have been decomposing for any length of time. So we went to that room and got to smell the stench of death. That was like the initial kick in the butt. Then after that, we had a month of classroom training. We would do mock search-and-recoveries out in the woods, looking for fallen soldiers Stateside before we were deployed. (See "A TIME Photographer's Iraq Diary...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cleaning Up Death at War — and at Home | 3/24/2009 | See Source »

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