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...about a man named Lev with a sexual fetish involving exotic snakes, which I choose to accept as an hommage à moi.) It's as if Ferris is testing his range to make sure the bass end is there as well as the comic treble. It's present and accounted for and suitably rich and profound. The next step will be to put it all together...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Walking the Line | 1/25/2010 | See Source »

...recognized only media who carry New York Police Department issued press passes, traditionally reserved for reporters who regularly cover crime scenes and certain public events in the city. Out of the approximately 30 such individuals from U.S. news outlets who were eligible to attend the trial, most were not present for opening statements...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Siddiqui Case: A Dry Run for the 9/11 Trial | 1/23/2010 | See Source »

...Tsvangirai find themselves fighting from unaccustomed corners, but on the other, their underlying motivations have not changed. Mugabe's one guiding principle remains to hold on to power. Having already survived a number of elections that went against him, he is likely calculating that a vote under the present rules is better than changing the rules altogether. This is also why Tsvangirai is insisting that the rules be altered. He wants a new government set-up in which the head of state -himself, Mugabe or anyone else - doesn't have such tight control over the country's security forces...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: New Elections: Zimbabwe's Leaders Trade Positions | 1/23/2010 | See Source »

...there's less skepticism about near-death experiences than there used to be, as well as more awareness. Why is that? Literally hundreds of scholarly articles have been written over the last 35 years about near-death experience. In addition to that, the media continues to present [evidence of] near-death experience. Hundreds of thousands of pages a month are read on our website, NDERF.org...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Is There Such a Thing as Life After Death? | 1/22/2010 | See Source »

...With their dazzling orange and gold skins and fat bellies, the individual dragonfish are soothing enough to watch swim around Yap's tanks. Until, that is, they are paired with another dragonfish, after which they present a more gruesome spectacle. "They either try to eat each other or fight each other to the death," explains one of Yap's employees, who pairs each dragonfish with a stingray, which hovers over the tank's bottom and stays out of his aggressive neighbor's way. (See pictures of new species found in the Mekong Delta...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Free Trade With China: ASEAN's Winners and Losers | 1/22/2010 | See Source »

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