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...place was so poorly heated that I, TIME's Shanghai correspondent, would take coffee breaks from typing in order to warm my hands on a hot mug. Last month I was just about to check into a hotel to write a story?when the electricity finally flickered back on. We thought we were the only people gullible enough to pay such an outrageous amount for our little house. Turns out that there are plenty of others in Shanghai able and willing to pay a lot more, forcing us to seek a new home...
...intelligence began collecting fingerprints of al-Qaeda operatives and members of other international terrorist groups. They scoured caves and safe houses in Afghanistan and Pakistan and sought records from police and security services worldwide. Thousands of prints were digitized and entered into a classified database, along with names, aliases, mug shots, addresses, associates, descriptions of scars and, occasionally, DNA data...
Adding to the fray, coffee consumption is on the wane worldwide. In response, I am on a personal mission to reverse the trend. Last month I went to a doctor’s appointment, and while holding my travel mug, admitted that I drink 3 cups of coffee a day. My doctor asked, “Is that the cup?” I said yes. She pointed out that it was an 18-ounce mug, and the equivalent of nine cups a day. I told her that it was Fair Trade coffee, and healthy for the world...
...blur of intense yoga classes and skipped meals. My energy level never goes too low, and I feel acutely alert. I start to notice that I am standing taller, breathing deeper and stretching farther. On the fourth day I finally break the fast: papaya drizzled with lime and a mug of ginger tea. Not exactly paad thai and an ice-cold Singha beer, but to my expectant lips and empty stomach it's manna...
...some highly visible faces—the mysterious mug that is Gossip Guy, the ebullient blonde-haired beauty Rachel E. Dry, the deceptively innocent grin of gay-court-file-pilfering Amit R. Paley. But each week, while beers are slammed in the newsroom, a loyal cadre of FM drones works quietly in the basement, oiling the well-run machine that is our fab rag. FM stopped being drunk for five minutes to salute these FM heroes. God knows, FM would be lost—both metaphorically and literally—without them...