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...alone), only rise. Even though the British didn’t catch the August 10 would-be bombers by confiscating their toothpaste—it took months of old-fashioned gumshoe detective work—the day heralded a new set of irrational security restrictions. Our shoeless security circus, where minimally qualified federal screeners leer at passengers and seize fruit blenders, only grows more absurd...

Author: By Piotr C. Brzezinski | Title: Liquids on a Plane! | 10/2/2006 | See Source »

...milk hot chocolate. During the day, there are pop-ins from celebrities such as Leonardo DiCaprio, Willie Nelson, Martin Sheen, Danny Glover, Laura Dern, Ben Harper, Ralph Nader and, proving that casting directors are underpaid, the mom from Dharma & Greg. You figure if the Field of Dreams guy got Shoeless Joe to come to a baseball field in a cornfield, this is just about right for a cornfield near Compton...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Up a Tree With Daryl Hannah | 6/16/2006 | See Source »

Harvard University Police Department (HUPD) officers apprehended a pantsless, shoeless Timothy J. Copage, 45, at around 8 p.m. and charged him with assault with a deadly weapon, disorderly conduct, and having an outstanding warrant. Copage was found sprawled in the Quad Library loading dock the night of his arrest—a night with temperatures in the mid-forties...

Author: By Robin M. Peguero, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: HUPD Apprehends Homeless Man | 12/7/2005 | See Source »

...race climaxed a year of hurt, bitterness and self-examination for both runners. Immediately after their Los Angeles mishap, Budd had approached Decker, her childhood idol, to apologize, but the frustrated U.S. star dismissed her with a curt "Don't bother." For Budd, the waiflike wonder whose shoeless style and record-smashing times had drawn worldwide attention in the months before the Summer Games, the accident was a traumatic blow to an already turbulent career. She had come under fire for obtaining last-minute British citizenship in order to race in the Olympics and evade the antiapartheid ban on South...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: The Way It Might Have Been | 4/12/2005 | See Source »

When revolutionaries win, it's hard to remember that they were once the minority: George Washington is a portrait on the dollar bill instead of a shoeless guerrilla on a raft. But Child was a rebel. She fought against everyone who believed in living correctly instead of well. She first fought against recipes that called for the culinary ease of prepackaged powdered soup and then the dietary benefits of defatted cheese. "Fake food--I mean those patented substances chemically flavored and mechanically bulked out to kill the appetite and deceive the gut--is unnatural, almost immoral, a bane to good...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Living Through Better Cooking | 8/23/2004 | See Source »

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