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...latest advancement in energy drinks, which originated in1960’s Japan. Called genki drinks, their purpose was to help workers stay awake on the job to increase productivity. An Austrian created Red Bull, building the energy drink niche in the U.S. Marketers removed emphasis from the working stiff and created a more frivolous image. Power Horse, whose potency claims are not approved by the Food and Drug Administration (FDA), distances itself from the party mindset. The press release states, “The drink’s very appearance (a stocky and powerful can) demonstrates that Power Horse...

Author: By Candace I. Munroe | Title: Horse Power | 6/28/2007 | See Source »

Among Gaza's many militant groups, the boys of Islamic Jihad have a different swagger. They walk with death in their shadows, and they move with the stiff pretense of being unafraid of it. Of course, they don't call it death but "martyrdom," and it awaits them in the form of an Israeli missile when these die-hard teenagers creep out into the orange groves and sand dunes to launch rockets at Israel...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Can Hamas Rein in Islamic Jihad? | 6/22/2007 | See Source »

...most of the books explain, the Mob had ample reason to want Kennedy out of the way. As early as 1957, he sat on the Senate Rackets Committee chaired by Arkansas' John McClellan; Robert Kennedy was its chief counsel. The Kennedys joined in the committee's stiff grilling of such gangsters as Los Angeles' Mickey Cohen, Louisiana's Marcello and Teamsters president Jimmy Hoffa, whose underworld ties presumably led to his murder...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Assassination: Did the Mob Kill J.F.K.? | 6/21/2007 | See Source »

...crackdown began after some 400 parents of children who they suspected had been kidnapped published an anguished letter on the popular Internet forum Tianya Club on June 7. The letter said they had managed to rescue some 40 children before running into stiff resistance from the local authorities in the northeastern province of Shanxi, where most of the kilns were situated. The letter sparked a storm on the Internet, and by June 13 a member of the Standing Committee of the Politburo of the Chinese Communist Party expressed concern about the issue. The police action soon followed...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Slave Labor in China Sparks Outrage | 6/20/2007 | See Source »

...murder of one of its passengers, U.S. Navy Diver Robert Stethem. Aides later ascertained that Kohl had actually said no decision had been made and coupled that with an assurance that if Hamadei is tried and convicted in West Germany, he will get a stiff prison sentence. That was not the rebuff Reagan thought it was, but neither was it what the President wanted to hear...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Back To the Berlin Wall | 6/12/2007 | See Source »

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