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...with no way to board my plane home some days later. As this dawned on, me paranoia set in. I retraced my steps. Eventually I calmed down, cancelled my credit cards, filed a police report, found friends to loan me money, and got my parents to overnight my passport. I kept telling myself that things weren’t that bad. But not even Monty Python could cheer me up. Just when everything seemed lost, I got a call. “We just got home and there was a message from a guy named Marty...

Author: By Adam M. Guren, | Title: Kindness in the Crowd | 7/21/2006 | See Source »

...been struggling to bring to heel. As one British online gaming firm boasted in a recent Times Square billboard: "EVERYBODY BETS." That may well be true, but the Justice Department is out to show that the luck of longtime winners like Carruthers and his firm can change overnight...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Can the U.S. Win Its Bet Against Online Gambling? | 7/19/2006 | See Source »

...forge a successful acting career, with roles in more than 30 films including Sayonara, Pete's Dragon and The Poseidon Adventure; in Los Angeles. Born Aaron Chwatt, he was nicknamed for his red hair and the brass buttons on his uniform at an early gig and became an overnight hit in 1952 with his own CBS variety show. He won a Best Supporting Actor Oscar for his 1956 portrayal of a U.S. airman in a doomed romance with a Japanese woman in Sayonara, starring Marlon Brando. "I'm a little guy," Buttons once said, "and that's what I play...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones | 7/17/2006 | See Source »

...chief reason: an imaginative collection of homegrown and hard-to-duplicate guest amenities that include custom-made leather cowboy boots and belts, spa treatments infused with extracts of the native agave plant, cattle drives, shooting contests, plates of rattlesnake cakes and wild-boar schnitzel, and overnight camping trips to a nearby ghost town. The West can be won for $215 to $825 a night. "To capture the attention of travelers, we have to offer a variety of indigenous amenities that create a unique experience at every turn," says Daniel Hostettler, managing director of the $80 million resort development. "That...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Global Life: One-of-a-Kind Getaways | 7/16/2006 | See Source »

...periods in the history of central banking?and send one of the clearest signals yet that Japan's economy has finally emerged from 15 years of stagnation. Led by governor Toshihiko Fukui, the monetary-policy committee at the Bank of Japan (BOJ) will vote on whether to raise its overnight lending rate to 0.25% or leave it at zero, where it has been for more than five years. That shift would not just demonstrate that the BOJ believes the world's second largest economy is now on sound footing?it would also have a profound effect on global markets...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Japan Takes Flight | 7/10/2006 | See Source »

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