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...window when Miss M. comes to town. The clerk at the ticket desk offers the friendly warning that this is "adult entertainment," and inside you'll hear Midler caution the crowd, "Please don't call the Pope if you see a tit or two." You won't have to phone Rome; skinwise, the show is pretty chaste. Bette relies on one of her longtime characters - Soph (for Sophie Tucker), the oldest babe in show business - to supply the raunch dressing. "My tits have fallen so far South they're speakin' Spanish," Soph confesses before telling a few ribald classics. Since...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Bette Midler Takes Vegas, Leaves Bathhouse | 2/29/2008 | See Source »

...Florida the power was mostly back on by evening. But when the Big One shakes down California, people will be on their own--in the preindustrial sense--for three to five days: no electricity, gas, running water or phone service. Everyone will be a volunteer, which will be a euphemism for survivor. "The first person who is going to help you is your neighbor," says Karen Baker, California's new secretary of service and volunteering. "So we want your neighbor to know...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Citizen Soldiers | 2/29/2008 | See Source »

...trump Abdullah. All he hopes for is to lower the PM's margin of victory. But if Kepala Batas entrepreneurs like Lee Peir Jye are any indication, Abdullah has little need for concern. "It doesn't matter if it's Abdullah or someone else," says the mobile phone-shop owner. "As long as we support the government, there will be stability, and that's good for business." Not a ringing hometown endorsement, but it's all Malaysia's accidental Prime Minister needs...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Lowered Expectations | 2/28/2008 | See Source »

...This month, after the Humane Society of the United States exposed animal cruelty at a California slaughterhouse, animal voters made thousands of phone calls, sparking the closure of the plant and the biggest meat recall in U.S. history. And, in an unprecedented election event, they spurred the presidential candidates to issue statements condemning animal abuse, with Obama last week explicitly commending the Humane Society’s investigation...

Author: By Lewis E. Bollard | Title: Compassionate Campaigners | 2/28/2008 | See Source »

Where to find you on a Saturday night: Looking for my cell phone...

Author: By FM Staff, CRIMSON STAFF WRITERS | Title: scoped! | 2/27/2008 | See Source »

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