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There's more to tattooing than pinpricks. The first detailed analysis of tattoo inks, presented at the American Chemical Society meeting last week, found copper, iron, lead, lithium, chromium and strontium. Rub-ons, anyone...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Doctor's Orders: Mar. 21, 2005 | 3/13/2005 | See Source »

...success of a system depends to a large degree on the attitudes of the people within it. Boiled down, most of the government's reforms have a single, extraordinarily ambitious aim: to encourage separating spouses to be reasonable in their negotiations with each other. And there's the rub. In the emotional storm that is the aftermath to breakup, many lack both the capacity for magnanimity and the clear-headedness to focus on the best interests of another person, even their own child. As Bryant said in a recent speech, couples who appear in her court tend to carry "with...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Giving Fathers A Fairer Go | 3/6/2005 | See Source »

...course, besides the transient fears of being sideswiped, rear-ended, or run off the road, my lingering apprehension is that the Boston driving style will somehow rub off—that I’ll somehow become hesitant and aimless, like so many of my fellow drivers. I fear that soon the transformation will be so complete that I won’t survive on the streets of my own city...

Author: By Susan E. Mcgregor, | Title: Massholes | 3/4/2005 | See Source »

...classy vid! Black and white, shaking bodies, and some unrealistically gummy stomachs. Also Ice Cube is in it for a second. Regrettably, the thing takes a turn for the creepy near the end, when a couple of thugs tenderly rub Beyonce’s sister Solange on the pregnancy...

Author: By Leon Neyfakh, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: 'Total' Eclipse of the Heart | 2/24/2005 | See Source »

Written by David Seltzer (who also wrote the Ur-Apocalyptic flick The Omen), the show has some of the religious intrigue of The Da Vinci Code and some of the grim phantasmagoria of The Passion of the Christ--two successes NBC would clearly like to have rub off on it. "In the tumultuous times we live in," says NBC entertainment president Kevin Reilly, who green-lighted both Medium and Revelations, "Apocalyptic theory and big existential questions tend to be on the rise...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Television: Spirits of the Age | 2/6/2005 | See Source »

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