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...Dinosaurs] never went into the water in a serious way," he says. "[They] never radiated into the oceans the way mammals did after the asteroid hit." Maybe that's because dinos were simply afraid of what lurked in the waters, waiting for them...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Super-Crocodiles May Have Dined on Dinosaurs | 11/23/2009 | See Source »

...drug, blossoming into raging infections. Crofton, however, had the insight to combine streptomycin with another new antibiotic--a formula that was to become the blueprint for combination therapy. That approach still forms the cornerstone of TB treatment and served as the inspiration for similar multipronged attacks on serious illnesses, like treating cancer with chemotherapy agents and battling HIV with antiviral drugs...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sir John Crofton | 11/23/2009 | See Source »

...demographic associated more with late nights on the town than cheery mid-morning group meals. But even in the current era of Judd Apatow bromance movies, Balzer still believes the increase in bro-brunches (bronches?) stems from the desire to eat cheaply combined with a serious lack of skills in the kitchen...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Low Prices and Booze Put Brunch on the Rise | 11/21/2009 | See Source »

...story that it tells, but with the way in which it tells it. It’s clear from the very start that this will be an against-the-odds sports movie (likely a tearjerker) but what’s less expected is the humor that consistently accompanies the serious narrative...

Author: By Anna E Sakellariadis, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: The Blind Side | 11/20/2009 | See Source »

...Critics, however, deride the new measures as toothless and say tackling the problem requires serious structural reforms. Former St. Petersburg police investigator and prominent crime journalist Yevgeny Vyshenkov compared Nurgaliyev to a collective farm owner whose chickens keep dying mysteriously. "To fix the situation, his great idea is to have the chicken troughs made in the shape of a triangle, but the chickens keep dying," Vyshenkov said. "Then he has the troughs made in the shape of a rectangle, but the chickens keep dying. Then a worker tells him all the chickens have died, and the owner says: 'What...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Russia's YouTube Craze: Exposing Police Corruption | 11/20/2009 | See Source »

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