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Maybe that’s why on Oct. 7, those four shots from a Makarov pistol ended her life in a dark, silent elevator. Unsurprisingly, investigators found the weapon next to her. In the assassin guild, workers use their tools only once...

Author: By Pierpaolo Barbieri | Title: The Blind Spot | 10/23/2006 | See Source »

...country where obesity seems to be running rampant, a featherweight figure is often prized. "A doctor may see a slender patient and say, 'Here's one without that problem,'" explains Andres Pumariega, a psychiatrist at the Reading Hospital and Medical Center in Pennsylvania. "It's become a silent epidemic...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Thin Gray Line | 10/22/2006 | See Source »

...clue should not publish unless he can offer definitive proof is like saying an astronomer who discovers a star should not reveal its location unless he can prove the origin of the universe. And suppose this theory of autism turns out to be true. Should those with suspicions remain silent, offering no caution to parents of young children...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Counterpoint: Gregg Easterbrook Reponds | 10/22/2006 | See Source »

...years just after World War I, this novel moves from the labor troubles in Colorado to turn-of-the-century New York, to London and Gottingen, Venice and Vienna, the Balkans, Central Asia, Siberia at the time of the mysterious Tunguska Event, Mexico during the Revolution, postwar Paris, silent-era Hollywood, and one or two places not strictly speaking on the map at all. With a worldwide disaster looming just a few years ahead, it is a time of unrestrained corporate greed, false religiosity, moronic fecklessness, and evil intent in high places. No reference to the present day is intended...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Promoting Pynchon | 10/20/2006 | See Source »

...SILENT MAJORITY...

Author: By Brittney L. Moraski, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Down Definitely Not Out | 10/18/2006 | See Source »

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