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Then one day, while riding his bicycle to the hospital, Chandra ran over a nail, and his tire went flat. He wheeled his bicycle to a roadside stall, where the repairman was busy retreading a truck tire with vulcanized rubber. Once his bicycle was fixed, Chandra raced to the hospital and consulted with Sethi. Soon Chandra returned to the tire shop with an amputee patient and a foot cast. He asked the repairman if he could cast a rubber foot. "He agreed,'' Sethi says, "and refused to accept any money once he found out why we were doing...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE $28 FOOT | 10/1/1997 | See Source »

Deadliest weapon Laptop computer Nail-spitting machine...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Techwatch: Sep. 29, 1997 | 9/29/1997 | See Source »

...what Murphy called "...a lot of work ahead of us" was easy to overlook in a matchup whose second half rivalled your average Ec 10 lecture for nail-biting suspense...

Author: By Daniel G. Habib, | Title: Reserving Judgement | 9/22/1997 | See Source »

Sean Archer (John Travolta) is an FBI agent determined to nail Castor Troy (Nicolas Cage), the terrorist who killed Sean's young son. He does so, apparently killing Castor. In order to find a bomb that...oh, never mind; it's too weird. Just know that Sean has Castor's face sewn on him. And then a revived Castor puts on Sean's face. The men are trapped in the personalities of their worst enemies...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CINEMA: ONE DUMB SUMMER | 6/30/1997 | See Source »

...Wednesday afternoon, and Matt Drudge is speed-dialing. in 30 minutes, he's made 20 phone calls trying to nail down the latest hot tip. A national newsweekly, he's been told, is doing a cover story on yet another major TV personality coming out of the closet. If Drudge could have found anything even resembling confirmation, he would have run with it. One press of a key and--bang!--the item would have been broadcast to the 60,000 Internet users who receive his breathless E-mail bulletins (and to tens of thousands more who visit his Website). There...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE NETLY NEWS: THE THRILL OF DRUDGE WORK | 6/16/1997 | See Source »

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