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...CAPTURED. A PYTHON reported to be 14.8 m long and weighing 447 kg, which would make it the largest snake ever discovered; in Curugsewu, Java, Indonesia. The dark-colored male reticulated python, which is capable of eating up to five dogs a month, would be almost 5 m longer than the previous record holder, a 10-m python shot on Sulawesi, Indonesia...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones | 1/4/2004 | See Source »

...prove it, but I suspect that Europeans are both less interested in and less knowledgeable about the U.S. than they were 20 years ago. They increasingly form their views of the U.S. from the sort of European journalism that stresses American weirdness, as if every American were a Botoxed, snake-handling cowboy Holy Roller, and that has produced what Nick Robinson calls a "grotesque caricature" of Bush in Europe...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: How Europe Gets Bush Wrong | 12/1/2003 | See Source »

...martial trilogy needs a climactic battle scene. This one pits the humans against a swarm of the Matrix's sentinels--those metal octopests, those enemy anemones that chased the humans in M1 and M2. They're back in megaforce, forming a snake shape that rears and strikes at Zion. So the human soldiers get outfitted in gigantic robot armor--clinking, clanking, clattering collections of collagenous junk...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Movies: The Matrix Rebounded | 11/17/2003 | See Source »

...have to admit, as a practicing heterosexual, I rarely, if ever, have problems with a lady, dressed up like a nurse. This time, however, the 18-22 year old women were not there only for my benefit, but were rather celebrating Halloween as Elle Driver, a.k.a. California Mountain Snake, a member of the Deadly Viper Assassination Squad of Kill Bill fame. Depending on the formulations, she was accompanied by some variation on Cottonmouth, Copperhead, Black Mamba and Cottonmouth’s bodyguard Go Go Yubari. This is a Bad Thing, because the movie’s inspiration is 50 years...

Author: By Scoop A. Wasserstein, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Bad Trend Alert | 11/6/2003 | See Source »

...like ... asking whether a venomous snake will bite." Hwang Jang Yop, highest ranking defector from North Korea, when asked during a trip to the U.S. if Kim Jong Il is a threat...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Verbatim | 11/3/2003 | See Source »

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