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...wrist looked like the neck of a decapitated chicken. The wound was jagged, the blood glistening in the light. My mouth was dry, my brow soaked in sweat; my heart beat quickly and weakly, little dings in my chest...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: How I Lost My Hand But Found Myself | 9/24/2006 | See Source »

...Guess which one of these movies you ought to break your neck...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Confusing Imaginary Life and a Tense Police Drama | 9/22/2006 | See Source »

...center of the New Yorker article are reclusive Russian mathematician Grigory Perelman and the more sociable Yau. The story opens with a full-page illustration rendering a bespectacled, white-haired, Asian man tugging at a medal labeled “Fields” that dangles from the neck of a brown-bearded Caucasian. Below, the caption reads: “Grigory Perelman (right) says, ‘If the proof is correct, then no other recognition is need.’ Shing-Tung Yau isn’t so sure...

Author: By Lulu Zhou, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Prof Accuses New Yorker of Defamation | 9/20/2006 | See Source »

...dozen police swooped into a Ho Chi Minh City Internet caf? and rearrested him. His brother, Tuan, thinks police followed him and Huy from their home to the caf?. "Huy was chatting on PalTalk when a big man in a white shirt came up and grabbed him around the neck," says Tuan, who was also arrested but released a day later. "They handcuffed Huy, and took us to two separate police stations." Huy hasn't been heard from since...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Voices of Dissent | 9/18/2006 | See Source »

...could use my mind a little differently," he says. But he was turned down. He tried again in 2002, requesting a transfer to counterintelligence, but his eight tattoos disqualified him; those kinds of markings make a man too easy to identify. Among the tattoos on his arms, chest, neck and leg are a series of musical notes, the kanji character for endure and a heart for an ex-girlfriend. The one tattoo he's reluctant to exhibit, on the inside of his right forearm, is of a skewer running through a bunch of severed fingers and eyeballs. "That...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Face of Haditha | 9/17/2006 | See Source »

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