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Dates: during 2000-2009
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Santas should adhere to St. Nick's traditional dress code - red coat, red pants, white beard - at all times. Not a creepy mustache, not a dirty dishrag and clown nose, but a real honest-to-goodness beard that can withstand some curious tugs. They should be friendly but not too friendly. And they probably shouldn't be drunk...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sketchy Santas: When Christmas Gets Weird | 12/9/2009 | See Source »

...pleasures of the pet. My pet. The world’s best. With rockin’ hair and an attitude, he’s the perfect incarnation of hip and hop. And to set the mood I turn on a few tunes that’ll make your nose twitch with the best of them. You know you want...

Author: By Rachel A. Burns, Jeffrey W. Feldman, Ama R. Francis, Jessica R. Henderson, Joshua J. Kearney, Eunice Y. Kim, Chris R. Kingston, Ali R. Leskowitz, Beryl C.D. Lipton, Monica S. Liu, Ryan J. Meehan, Antonia M.R. Peacocke, Erika P. Pierson, Bram A. Strochlic, Mark A. VanMiddlesworth, and Denise J. Xu, CRIMSON STAFF WRITERS | Title: Editor's Picks 2009 | 12/4/2009 | See Source »

...long-term interest, and they will not do it unless their competition with the U.S. comes to dominate their policy toward Afghanistan, which it has not to date," he says. Sadjadpour is not so sanguine, warning, "It [wouldn't] be the first time Iran has cut off its nose to spite its face...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Will Iran Help or Hinder Obama in Afghanistan? | 12/3/2009 | See Source »

...said that the solution was found by turning to a bird called the Kingfisher, which catches its prey by dive-bombing into bodies of water without creating a single ripple thanks to certain properties of its tapering beak. Design firm JR West solved the noise issue by adapting the nose of the train to mimic the Kingfisher’s beak, increasing the train’s speed by 10 percent and reducing energy consumption by 15 percent in the process...

Author: By Jacob D. Roberts, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Author Speaks Of “Nature’s Blueprint” | 12/2/2009 | See Source »

...problem is as much visual as it is olfactory. As the bacteria dies, a foul odor wafts from the water. "It's like trying to eat lunch in an outhouse," says English backpacker Brian Thompson, 22, pulling his t-shirt over his nose between bites of chicken at a little lakeside restaurant. "Tell you one thing, I wouldn't eat the fish." One restaurant owner says he's considering closing or renting the space to another operator, at a loss. "We used to have 15 or 20 tables a day. Now we get one," says Pedro Chavajag, 38, owner...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: How Guatemala's Most Beautiful Lake Turned Ugly | 11/29/2009 | See Source »

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