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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...whatever they want, all is lost. Pan Yue, deputy head of the State Environmental Protection Administration (SEPA), regularly warns of looming environmental catastrophe. And yet there is no sign of any slowdown in the tide of pollution engulfing the country. Despite Beijing's condemnation of a huge chemical spill that left 4 million residents of the city of Harbin with no running water in November 2005, Pan recently revealed that over the next year, there were no fewer than 130 chemical spills around the country--a rate of one every three days...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Where The Coal Is Stained With Blood | 3/2/2007 | See Source »

...member felt the need to take out his self-loathing on innocent female party-goers at the Owl on Saturday as he accused everyone there of husband-hunting...Then again, who wouldn’t want to marry an Owl guy? It seems one potential hubby managed to spill his drink twice on the same girl, only to pass out in front of 7-11 later in the night...Advoflappers dressed up for their Depression-themed comp party (20s? 30s? Who cares if the costumes match the decade) on Saturday. The party featured a life-size Hooverville that...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Chatter | 2/28/2007 | See Source »

...Sometimes when people spill about their spirituality, it's because it's a new discovery: 'Oh, my God, I'm born again,'"> says Carrey's Number 23 co-star Virginia Madsen. "But this is something he really lives. Stand-up comics are usually kind of morose and dark people. But Jim is really funny. And he enjoys other people's sense of humor as well." Madsen said that between sets, he cracked people up with stories about when his family was homeless and living in a van. You have to be pretty funny to pull that...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Has Jim Carrey Flipped Out? | 2/14/2007 | See Source »

Washington is in the middle of an almost cinematic nervous breakdown about the war on Iraq. And it's a reliable feature of life here in the city of fear that one crisis will spill into the other before long, as it promises to do this week...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Washington's War Trauma | 2/5/2007 | See Source »

...book, it's as gorgeous as any devoted to Michelangelo or Matisse, and the reproductions are better. You may not find a shelf with vertical space big enough to hold this book; and don't put it on a coffee table (whose service it would nearly cover), less you spill some frappuccino on it. But buy and treasure it - and hope that, unlike my copy, yours doesn't have one 16-page section printed twice. Oh well, it's close to perfect...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Does Mad Need a Museum? | 2/3/2007 | See Source »

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