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...coming home from an evening drinking with friends, and got into a taxi that already had a pretty young woman in the backseat on the way to her destination. He got to his stop, paid the driver, and turned around and asked the stranger “Do you want to make love to me?” (That’s the tamest way I can put the translation.) The girl thought for a moment, and then shook her head as if it did not matter either way, then got out of the taxi and went off with...

Author: By James A. Mcfadden | Title: Africa is for Lovers | 8/4/2009 | See Source »

...stayed icy calm. "Look, d'Arlandes," he said. "Here we are above Paris. There's no possible danger for you. Are you taking this all in?" But the marquis couldn't take it in. When a gust of wind jostled the balcony, he screamed, "What are you doing! Stop dancing...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science Feels Sexy in The Age of Wonder | 8/3/2009 | See Source »

...global recession hasn't helped robots' lot. As people around the world curtail luxury spending on cars and gadgets, robots are gathering dust on factory floors, and future demand for industrial robots has dropped as Japanese production takes a nosedive. Still, this lull is unlikely to stop Japanese scientists and researchers, who will continue to develop industrial and service robots while rolling out an occasional whizzy invention or two, all in the hopes of turning science fiction fantasies - one day - into a reality...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: What's Behind Japan's Love Affair with Robots? | 8/3/2009 | See Source »

...different current patterns, have plastic gyres of their own. Since these massive hoards of plastic come to float in international waters - and the vortices are far from land - no government is willing to take on the expense and difficulty of cleaning them up. The best solution is simply to stop adding to them by using less plastic and recycling it when we do. Currently, more than 60 billion tons of plastic are produced each year, and less than 5% of that is ever recycled. Much of what doesn't end up in landfills finds its way eventually into the great...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Expedition Sets Sail to the Great Plastic Vortex | 8/1/2009 | See Source »

...intend any racial bigotry, harm or prejudice," leaving observers to ponder the actual intention of when mass e-mail was sent by describing Henry Louis Gates Jr. as a "banana-eating jungle monkey" - a phrase acknowledged by as a "poor choice of words" • pondering by observers can stop, as attorney for explains that intention of was not "to malign [Gates] racially" but was merely "a characterization of the actions of that...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: This Preposterous Week! Paul Slansky's News Index | 7/31/2009 | See Source »

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