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Tiaro Shire: Discover the magic, says a billboard. The brownish fields at Gunalda, 200 km north of Brisbane, don't look especially magical. But then you walk into a shop called Wind Fairies, and you start to wonder. Inside a room hung with blue velvet and decked with gold stars and Christmas-tree lights, Rhonda Gadenne puts a small glass ball in your hand, sprinkles you with glitter and says: "Close your eyes and make your fairy wish. May your magic come true...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Spelling Lessons | 8/7/2006 | See Source »

...problem with buying a casket is that nobody wants to do so until the need arises--and by then it's simplest to purchase one through the funeral home. Consumer watchdogs say some funeral homes regularly inflate prices on caskets and mislead families into believing they may not shop elsewhere, despite a 1984 ruling by the Federal Trade Commission that explicitly states they may. (A class action was filed in 2005 by the Funeral Consumers Alliance that charged Batesville with conspiring with the big funeral-service chains. Batesville will not comment on pending litigation...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Trends: Opening the Box | 8/6/2006 | See Source »

...their discomfort as he bundled them into the back of a pickup truck. "You may be released or jailed, or maybe somebody will use an electric drill on you." In the end, the TIME men were able to talk their way out of captivity after the owner of a shop near the checkpoint vouched for them. "The police realized that if we disappeared, the shopkeeper might be able to identify them as the ones who captured us," says one of the brothers. A few days later, one of the brothers had another close shave when he stopped in a busy...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Life In Hell: A Baghdad Diary | 8/6/2006 | See Source »

...will be located in the area where the enclosed coffee shop used to be, according to Harvard University Dining Services (HUDS) Communications Coordinator Jami Snyder. The fact that Fly-By will have a designated space means that the process of getting a meal will be “more efficient and easier for students to flow though,” she said...

Author: By Brittney L. Moraski, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Faster Fly-By, New Decor for Loker | 8/4/2006 | See Source »

CAMBRIDGE, Mass.—During the four weeks I was home in the Upper Peninsula of Michigan, I laid out on the hammock, drove into town to shop, and met up with my friends...

Author: By Brittney L. Moraski | Title: Growing Pains | 8/4/2006 | See Source »

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