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...then tie another. Another took to riding a pet lion to meet the mailman; yet another tried in vain to keep penguins in a walk-in freezer. One wrote Pablo Picasso asking to buy ten paintings; he didn't specify color or type, just the size of his wall. A Houston oilman's wife wrote to the Smithsonian to ask whether the Hope Diamond was for sale. Then there were the two oilmen who loved playing practical jokes on each other; the high point of their duel came when one took a European vacation and his rival erected a full...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Big Rich | 2/2/2009 | See Source »

...favorite bumper sticker among fevered Bush haters held that the 43rd President was "all hat, no cattle." Dictionaries of idiom define this as "when someone talks big, but cannot back it up." We've known for a long time the size of Barack Obama's head. Now we're about to find out the size of his herd...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Obama's First Test: Stimulus Today, Change Tomorrow | 2/1/2009 | See Source »

Losing the Bloom. Flowers not your style? Try the New York Burger Company's "Burger Bouquet," a sample size box of three mini-burgers, homemade potato chips and a brownie for $25. Deliveries go out in the city between 11am...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sweet Treats and Other Presidents' Weekend Getaways | 1/31/2009 | See Source »

...crash was a tragedy. It was not a surprise. Helicopter ambulances were a huge step forward in trauma care when the industry started in the early 1970s. But even as the fleet more than tripled in size, from 200 helicopters in 1988 to around 665 today, safety problems festered. On average, five EMS helicopters crashed every year between 1988 and 1997, according to new research by Dr. Ira Blumen, director of the University of Chicago Aeromedical Network. The average has doubled to more than 12 crashes per year since 1998. The past 15 months have been the deadliest yet: there...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: EMS Helicopter Safety: Can New Rules Save Lives? | 1/30/2009 | See Source »

...plains. But this patchwork country of 55 million is made up of more than 100 unique ethnicities. The isolation enforced by Burma's numerous mountains and hills helped nurture these culturally discrete groups, making it one of the most diverse countries in Southeast Asia, despite its relatively small geographic size. Here are five ethnicities, some of who have unsuccessfully waged long insurgencies against the central government and others who have made news recently because of the abuses they have suffered at the hands of the Burman-dominated regime. (See pictures of tension in Burma...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Closer Look at Burma's Ethnic Minorities | 1/30/2009 | See Source »

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