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...main source of the cacophony is fireworks. In the twisting streets of Old Delhi, dozens of shops stock everything from thumb-sized "bombs" tightly wrapped in green string to huge cardboard tubes with names like "Galaxy" that shoot hundreds of colorful balls into the sky. Store fronts are hung with banners for "Cock Brand" fireworks promising "sparklers, crackers, rockets and fancy fireworks." On each banner a proud rooster stands amidst an orange and red fireburst. The trade is brisk in the buildup to Diwali, with thousands of stores across India selling hundreds of tons of firecrackers...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Sound and Fury of Diwali | 10/24/2006 | See Source »

...creepy. When you're really sure that you're getting old, you just shoot yourself. No, I'm kidding. It's O.K. I have a lot of things wrong with me, and so there are a lot of medical problems and stuff. That makes it harder, but you don't know that when you're playing. As soon as you start playing, all that goes away...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Rock Survivor | 10/22/2006 | See Source »

Roth's film Hostel, about young backpackers caught in a pay-for-torture club in Slovakia, was inspired, he says, by a website he saw advertising a club in Thailand that claimed to let you shoot someone for $10,000. The torture scenes Roth devised came from researching European witch trials and Nazis and from some trips he made to the tool aisle at Home Depot (one shot guarantees you'll never look at bolt cutters the same way again). In the scene that won Roth the Most Memorable Mutilation prize at this month's Scream Awards, a kind...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Splat Pack | 10/22/2006 | See Source »

...last season. But it was also a good business move to film the opener in South America, where millions of loyal viewers watch each week. "We have a responsibility to embrace these markets where we get so much support," says Caruso, who spent a week in Rio for the shoot. "More and more, I'm realizing our show has a constituency outside the United States that we should be aware of in our story lines...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Media: The American Way | 10/15/2006 | See Source »

...rocket in a nearby field still talks fondly of his Israeli friends. But although he opposes the Palestinian militants and the rain of destruction they attract from the Israeli side, he says that "if I start complaining about the militants' setting off these rockets, they'll shoot...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Gaza: No Doves in Sight | 10/8/2006 | See Source »

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