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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...which painted Lulu as a naif with bad taste in beaux. A carnal Candide, a blithe arsonist of men's hearts, she has no calculation in her, just a knowing or beckoning smile. Her face makes a kind of smile when she's crying too, as if even the pain a man can inflict on her is a game played according to her rules. Great screen acting is hard to define but a cinch to spot. That's Brooks in Pandora. Hers is the art that conceals art, the beauty that reveals...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Lulu-Louise at 100 | 11/14/2006 | See Source »

...Mystery of Pain Why does the same joint problem make one person suffer terribly while another has no pain at all? There are a few clues that might solve this puzzle

Author: /time Magazine | Title: It's All About the Timing | 11/14/2006 | See Source »

...simply won't go away. In my case it lasted for almost four weeks, often improving for a day or two only to return in full force. It's also scarily hard to control, even with medication: After a couple of weeks of hacking, my wife complained of a pain in her side and was told by the doctor that she had coughed so much that she had torn rib cartilage. In fact, he said, she was lucky not to have actually cracked a rib, an occurrence so common that she was routinely sent...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Barely Breathing | 11/13/2006 | See Source »

...daring exploit and a minor league kill before the stylized opening credits. This time, though, the fatal confrontation is shown in monochrome and takes place in a Saw-style bathroom. The killing is grimly realistic, as if to suggest that this Bond operates in the real world of real pain and has wounds that may never heal. A later scene, with a naked Bond getting his testicles whipped, inevitably calls up Abu Ghraib atrocities (and should have earned the film an R rating instead of the indulgent PG-13 it received). Bond can take punishment and dish it out, impersonally...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Movies: Um, Is That You, Bond? | 11/12/2006 | See Source »

...million Number of bottles of generic acetaminophen recalled after traces of metal were found in 500-mg caplets of the pain reliever...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Numbers: Nov. 20, 2006 | 11/12/2006 | See Source »

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