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...suppliers. Before last summer, SPL's China facility had never been inspected by Beijing's drug-safety agency because, says a spokesman, the agency thought "it was a chemical plant." A source close to the FDA's heparin investigation puts it bluntly: "China simply has no regulatory regime to speak...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Heparin's Deadly Side Effects | 11/13/2008 | See Source »

...Bolańo asks, a medium of form and meaning, faithfully reflect a world that is blessed with neither? That is in fact a cesspool of randomness and filth? An orderly book, all signal and no noise, would not be a true book. To mirror a broken world, to speak the unspeakable, you need a broken book. That Bolańo should have died and left his book an orphan might even have struck him as appropriate...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Broken Book | 11/13/2008 | See Source »

...thespian. He cheerfully cops to having been the most lightweight of Bonds. He presents himself as a cheerfully overgrown boy blessed with astounding leading-man looks, a greater-than-average air of aplomb, the bare minimum of dramatic talent and no intellectual gifts or hidden depths to speak of. His greatest joys in life are his children, eating, drinking, getting married to diverse women and laughing at his own or other people's farts...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: And the Bond Played On | 11/12/2008 | See Source »

...premature” to “affix myself with a title that I don’t necessarily agree with,” Chris said. Chris was such an engaging conversationalist that it was easy not to process what he was saying. “Do you always speak like this,” I asked, “or only when you’re being interviewed?” “If you’re into arguing and debating and public speaking, then it becomes sort of second nature, I suppose...

Author: By Lois E. Beckett | Title: Kids Who Would Be King | 11/12/2008 | See Source »

...They speak a very radical language, and have ties to groups abroad," said French Interior Minister Michèle Alliot-Marie in announcing the arrests Tuesday. "Since becoming minister, I've noted the risks of the resurgence of a violent radical left (given) the radicalization we've observed in it over the past three or four years...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: French Anarchists Charged With Rail Sabotage | 11/11/2008 | See Source »

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