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...tortured, shot in the head and set on fire. Based on his description, Aslan drove out to a valley near Silopi and found bones near a tree by a riverbed. He badgered a local prosecutor who eventually put him on a bus to Istanbul with a plastic bag carrying the bones for forensic identification. The tests proved the bones were Murat...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: In Turkey, Signs of Change for the Kurds | 4/2/2009 | See Source »

...hold over the Singaporean stomach is still strong. Peranakan food can be sampled in the city's thousands of low-cost hawker centers. For connoisseurs, the East Coast neighborhood of Katong is where the best laksa is served - traditionally enjoyed in chipped porcelain bowls while seated on plastic stools on the footpath. (See the top 10 food trends...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Touring Singapore's Gastronomical Heritage | 4/2/2009 | See Source »

...stuffed Tinky-Winky—and her ostensible engagement in frivolous girl-talk affirm her status as an adolescent rendered sexually unattainable by both law and taboo. The magazine’s most recent cover relishes its role as an extreme-makeover guru, peddling a sort of sexual plastic surgery. Pushing their Gossip Girl personas’ decided lack of naiveté to a new extreme, Blake Lively and Leighton Meester jointly lick a cone topped with two scoops of ice cream in an unapologetic allude to the phallic. Blake’s innocent “come-hither?...

Author: By Courtney A. Fiske | Title: ‘Sexiness’ or ‘Sexism’? | 3/30/2009 | See Source »

Today the center sells the leeches to plastic surgeons, who put them on wounds to reduce the chance of scarring, to dentists, who apply them on gums to reduce swelling, and even to gynecologists, who use them to treat sexually transmitted diseases (Yes. You imagine right.). The oral cavity of the leech is rich with an anticoagulant, which allows the animal to feed continuously on blood but which also delivers the anti-clotting substance more effectively to the area of a wound than would a small injection puncture. Indeed, leeches are used very much like syringes. After a leech...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Leeches: Fresh Blood for Russia's Economy | 3/28/2009 | See Source »

...actually worse than if you scratch the bottom. Yes, it's surprising, isn't it? The laser looks through the clear bit, so we assume that's the delicate side. But actually, because of the way they're made - you start off with this lump of clear plastic and then you stick the foil on it, and then you stick a label on top of that - it's much thinner on the label side than it is on the other side. If you scratch the clear side, you can kind of polish it out. But if you scratch the label...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Why S___ Happens | 3/23/2009 | See Source »

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