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...Immunity Challenge, a single-elimination, competitive-balance affair with rope-tugs on pedestals, plank-shaking and other vigorous nonsense, ended with Nick outdueling Colby for the necklace. And it was supposed to matter. Nick was supposed to have pulled off a Jenna-style stay of execution, and the camera was already settling on the sweetness-and-light pairing of Rodger and Elisabeth...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Survivor: The Queen Is Dead. Long Live the Queen. | 3/29/2001 | See Source »

...heroine's job to get in trouble and the hero's job to get her out of it. How many films ended with the good guy and the bad guy battling it out while the sweet young thing shivered to one side, never thinking to pick up a plank and help...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Go Ahead, Make Her Day | 3/26/2001 | See Source »

...three Rs: reading, 'riting and rigging gunpowder canisters with flash fuses. Sitting at their desks in the Fanglin village school, she and her classmates each made 20 firecrackers per day that her teachers sold to middlemen who sold them to factories. "Sometimes the teachers beat us with a wooden plank," Zhang says. "Making fireworks is hard." It's also hazardous, especially when the workers are children who shouldn't be playing with fireworks, much less manufacturing them. Last week an explosion ripped apart Zhang's school in Jiangxi province, killing more than 40 students and teachers and shedding stark light...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Learning to Die | 3/19/2001 | See Source »

...heroine's job to get in trouble and the hero's job to get her out of it. How many films ended with the good guy and the bad guy battling it out while the sweet young thing shivered to one side, never thinking to pick up a plank and help...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Go Ahead, Make Her Day | 3/18/2001 | See Source »

Currently, all parties must shut down at 1 a.m. The council, says Plants, is pursuing a popular plank in the campaign of council President Paul A. Gusmorino '02, in trying to convince Masters to extend the deadline...

Author: By David C. Newman, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Open All Night: College Ponders Extending Hours | 3/16/2001 | See Source »

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