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...unfair of the school to deprive healthy children of their favorite peanuty snacks. "Parents get very passionate and angry when their kids can't bring peanut butter to school," says Mike Tringale, director of external affairs at the Asthma and Allergy Foundation of America. "But you wouldn't throw razor blades all over the gymnasium. For these allergic kids, putting peanut butter in the cafeteria is the same thing...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Peanut Butter Sandwich Under Threat | 11/2/2007 | See Source »

...around like mad people wielding razor blades. But it is not the best way to resolve the problem.' VLADIMIR PUTIN, President of Russia, speaking out against U.S. sanctions on Iran over the country's nuclear program

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Verbatim | 11/1/2007 | See Source »

...ordeal of the those in the camps, for the entrepreneurs of El Fasher, things look likely to get even better: At the end of 2007, the struggling AU mission will be merged into a 26,000-strong hybrid U.N. operation. Already, new houses are springing up close to the razor-wire fence of the AU headquarters, where simple four-bedroom houses can fetch $2,000 a month. Tajel al-Din Dissa, an economics lecturer at the university, is among those investing in property. He rents one house to an AU officer and is building a second, which he hopes will...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Where Darfur's War Is Good for Business | 10/29/2007 | See Source »

...profits from a host of preexisting stereotypes. Vampires wield long, razor-sharp fangs and even longer, yellowing nails. They attack humans at the throat and suck their blood until they die, and as a result they are always sporting beards of dried blood on their mouths and chins. They howl at the moon in unison and speak an absurd imaginary language comprised primarily of guttural shrieks and raspy hiccups. And, naturally, they can’t stand the sunlight...

Author: By Anjali Motgi, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: 30 Days of Night | 10/19/2007 | See Source »

...court on an oral-argument day is likely to feel as though she has wandered into a Vatican conference room filled with adepts in Augustinian theology debating arcane questions in hurried Latin. The Justices are scarlet-capped cardinals; the law clerks are the brilliant new seminary graduates, their razor minds undulled by actual experience; the lawyers at the dais are the theologians commissioned to assist in plumbing the sacred texts...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Incredibly Shrinking Court | 10/11/2007 | See Source »

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