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...Superman several years ago. What do you think of the new film? I'm just glad there's any Superman movie. My version had a lot more parameters: the producer wanted to never show him in the suit, never show him flying and have him fight a giant spider in the third...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: Jul. 24, 2006 | 7/16/2006 | See Source »

...break in that barrier--even a tiny cut--there's a chance some bacteria will get inside and infect the wound. What makes MRSA germs particularly dangerous is that they excrete a potent toxin that attacks the skin, causing an abscess that's often mistaken for a spider bite. Normally, the body can wall that area off. But if the infection spreads, treatment with antibiotics may be called...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Surviving the New Killer Bug | 6/18/2006 | See Source »

...European countries - although hotly denied - would not be wholly unexpected, since they were among the "coalition of the willing" that backed the Iraq invasion in 2003. More surprising are the report's allegations that countries where the Iraq war was far more controversial have also colluded in the "spider's web" of U.S. torture. Germany, for example, refused to support America's adventures in Iraq when it was governed by Gerhard Schröder's Social Democrats. Yet if the report is right, on at least two occasions, Germany allowed rendition operations to be staged at its airports. Italian prosecutors...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Renditions Unto Caesar | 6/11/2006 | See Source »

...wasn't the spider that scared Miss Muffet--it was that stuff in her bowl. White, clumpy, sour, often runny, yogurt did not inspire children to plead with their mothers at the supermarket. Nor did it get much closer to American mouths than arm's length, from which those mothers could read the list of ingredients to be reminded that yogurt is animated by at least two types of live bacteria: Lactobacillus bulgaricus and Streptococcus thermophilus. Pudding, anyone? Aisle...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Yogurt Nation | 5/30/2006 | See Source »

...British secret intelligence service MI6, working out the parameters of a deal in which Libya would give up its nuclear ambitions. But on Dec. 14, only a few days before an official announcement was to be made in Washington, Hussein was pulled out of a spider hole and Gaddafi had last-minute jitters. Worried that the humiliating capture of Saddam would be viewed as the driving force behind his voluntary disarmament, Gaddafi suddenly proposed a postponement. According to his son Seif al Islam, British Prime Minister Tony Blair pleaded with Gaddafi, "Please, we are in a hurry...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Behind Gaddafi's Diplomatic Turnaround | 5/18/2006 | See Source »

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