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...tendency to fold like a bad poker hand in the quarters of major tournaments. But Spain looked devastating in trashing Russia 4-1 in its opener; less so against Sweden in winning the second game. Its second squad squashed a disinterested Greece in the third game of the first round. Then, in a monumentally awful game with Italy, Spain unloaded 80 years of futility against the Italians by outlasting them on penalties. The flowing attacks of David Villa and Fernando Torres, the nearly choreographed ball possession of Inesta and Xavi Hernandez were missing. But Spain no longer carried history...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Euro 2008: The Final Countdown | 6/28/2008 | See Source »

...that has collapsed, there is little hope of improvement. Running parallel to Zimbabwe's worsening humanitarian crisis in the coming years will be a deepening political one, analysts predict. Pretoria-based Zimbabwe expert Chris Maroleng, of the International Institute of Strategic Studies, describes the three months since the first round of voting on March 29 - in which Tsvangirai came out ahead, but without the outright majority that would have ruled out a runoff - as a creeping military coup. The army, police and government-sponsored militias have fanned out across the country, killing, beating and displacing opposition supporters, wresting control...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Lesson of Zimbabwe's 'Election' | 6/27/2008 | See Source »

Eight kinds of beer and freshly shucked oysters make the Innamincka Hotel an oasis for travelers on Australia's remote Strzelecki Track. But keeping food and drink cold in the Outback isn't cheap. Every three weeks a diesel tanker must make a 1,600-km round trip from Port Augusta, South Australia, to keep the generators running...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Deep Heat | 6/26/2008 | See Source »

...popular activity: YouTube has videos of young adults texting while driving, and about 600 Facebook members have joined a group called I Text Message People While Driving and I Haven't Crashed Yet! TIME's Sarah N. Lynch contacted the group's founder, Taylor Leming, 21, of Round Hill, Va., who submitted her responses via e-mail...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Q&A: Taylor Leming, Texting Motorist | 6/26/2008 | See Source »

...week's winner is based on the relative importance of each fight and by how much the winner takes each round...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Page | 6/26/2008 | See Source »

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