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...Having suffered a series of heart attacks, Biggs reportedly returned seeking medical attention. However, through his son he told reporters that he returned to spend his final days in his native land. "My last wish is to walk into a Margate pub as an Englishman and buy a pint of bitter...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: 'Great Train Robber' Freed from Jail | 8/7/2009 | See Source »

Giovanni Di Stefano, the family's attorney, said he was pleased with Biggs' release but remains mindful of the former prisoner's health. "He is being released effectively to die, and that cannot be considered a victory," he said. And what about that final pint? "This man is ill - he's going to die. He is not going...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: 'Great Train Robber' Freed from Jail | 8/7/2009 | See Source »

...Indian company, however, aims to leverage low production costs to build simple, cheap vehicles and sell them in India, Europe and, within five years, the U.S. The Reva, branded the G-Wiz in Europe, costs about $12,200 there and about $7,000 in India. The pint-size commuter vehicles are powered by lead-acid batteries, which provide about 50 miles (80 km) of driving per charge. Top speed is about 50 m.p.h. (Read "From India: First Nano's $2,000 Car. Now the $7,800 Nano Home...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Made in India: The $12,000 Electric Car | 7/21/2009 | See Source »

...released in Ukraine next week. But the commission felt that the country, with its conservative Catholic west and Orthodox east, was just not ready for Brüno and the character's over-the-top sexual antics, including an explicit romp with his pint-size boyfriend and oral sex with a ghost...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: No Sex, Please: Ukraine Bans Brüno | 7/15/2009 | See Source »

...alcohol-governing rules that remain on the books, some of the most extreme are known as "blue laws," which outlaw certain "secular" activities on Sunday (like enjoying a pint of ale). The term, according to some historians, comes from the color of the paper used to print the first decrees, in New Haven, Conn. Others believe it refers to blue's use as an 18th century slang term for "rigidly moral." If you were a settler in the 1700s, Sunday was a day to rest and honor the Sabbath, nothing less and (definitely) nothing more. It wasn't just alcoholic...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: America's Quirky Alcohol Laws | 7/9/2009 | See Source »

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