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...less than you might think. In a genuine nuclear bomb, enriched uranium or plutonium is explosively compressed, fracturing atomic bonds and releasing a cataclysmic blast of intense radiation. A dirty bomb is little more than a pipe bomb with radioactive rubbish packed into...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Defusing The Terror | 6/24/2002 | See Source »

...think there's nothing but rubbish on the Internet, you're not a film director. First there was Stanley Kwan's Lan Yu, then Shunji Iwai's All About Lily Chou-Chou, two films inspired by stories on the Net. Three years ago, Korean director Kwak Jae-yong read a Web column tracing the ups and downs of a relationship between two college students: she eccentric, he naive. Kwak has turned it into My Sassy Girl, an esculent entr?e billed as a romantic comedy. In fact, it's harder to categorize: the movie is absurd, bizarre; it beats...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Girl, Interrupted | 3/4/2002 | See Source »

...says H.G. "We build a new mountain in Smiggin itself, or we build another 1000 feet on Mount Kosciusko." The new-look mountain would be named after Australia's first ever winter medallist, speed skater Zali Steggall. "We've just got to get the nation to dump all its rubbish on top of Kosciusko, compact it a bit and voila, Mount Steggall...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Olympics 2010: On to Smiggin Holes! | 2/25/2002 | See Source »

...That’s rubbish...

Author: By Robert J. Fenster, DIAGNOSIS | Title: Something to Talk About | 2/14/2002 | See Source »

...surrounding states, and the material they have to offer comes in two varieties. Top-quality, weapons-grade material is the only kind that can used to build a true nuclear-fission bomb, and is both hard to obtain and harder to turn into an explosive. But lower-grade radioactive rubbish is also dangerous. It can be fashioned into a so-called dirty bomb: a conventional explosive packed with waste that spreads radiation in all directions...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Nuke Pipeline | 12/17/2001 | See Source »

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