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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...night?s biggest color: Orange. Skin, that is. Jennifer Lopez, Jessica Alba, Charlize Theron and many others took Oscar gold a tad too far in the sunless spray tan booth. The Marge Simpson look only works with blue hair, ladies...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: 10 Biggest Surprises of the Academy Awards | 3/6/2006 | See Source »

...coal can look and burn like regular coal. The IRS rule for transforming coal into synfuel--and getting the tax credit--requires only that the substance be chemically altered in some way. The alchemy that satisfies the IRS is a simple process: some plants spray newly mined coal with diesel fuel, pine-tar resin, limestone, acid or other substances--a practice that industry critics call "spray and pray." Other operators mix coal-mining waste with chemicals, coat it with latex and blend it with untreated coal to form briquettes. (For an earlier story on the scheme, see "The Great Energy...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Magic Way to Make Billions | 2/26/2006 | See Source »

...think they've lost touch a bit with the ordinary lives of people. But I get off the train in Redfern and walk to my office, and it confronts me every day. Aboriginal people say to me, At least you're here so we can give you a spray - others we never...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: 10 Questions For Warren Mundine | 2/7/2006 | See Source »

...really isn't just about the money. One of the pervasive myths of the information age is that the Internet is a kind of magic spray that when applied to totalitarian states causes democracy to spontaneously blossom forth. "Westerners saw the Internet as this garage-door opener that you could point at closed regimes and open them," says Tim Wu, a professor at Columbia Law School and co-author of the forthcoming book Who Controls the Internet...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Google Under the Gun | 2/5/2006 | See Source »

...Abernathy, Jackson and Young were sighted--only to hush when King's absence registered. For Abernathy, a keen reader of crowds, the palpable disappointment was worse than he feared. He went to a vestibule telephone instead of the podium and marshaled enticements for King--mentioning news cameras, the big spray of microphones, and Lawson's point that the movement seldom gathered so many people in the South. Most of all, Abernathy told King this was a core crowd of sanitation workers who had braved a night of hellfire to hear him, and they would feel cut off from a lifeline...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: "I Have Seen The Promised Land" | 1/1/2006 | See Source »

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