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...York or Tokyo, with graduate school in the near future. His style will be constantly evolving. “Whenever I go to a new environment I tend to pick up new things,” he says. He promises, though, that he’ll never stray too far from his street performer roots and will still pick up an apple, or three, to juggle along...

Author: By FM Staff, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: 15 Seniors, Part II | 12/12/2002 | See Source »

...once shared with a shepherd, two nuns and a flatulent elephant on the Calcutta Express. But while the romance of the Indian road undoubtedly endures, even seasoned voyagers find the charms of New Delhi's choking, lawless traffic fairly thin. There is simply a limit to how many times stray cows or small children in the fast lane can make you laugh. So, six years after the initial phase of the project began, the Indian capital is applauding the news that on Christmas Day the first part of a $2.3 billion state-of-the-art metro system...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Red Fort? Seen It. Now What? | 12/8/2002 | See Source »

...preferred the Uniden because it was static free both inside my apartment and up to a block away. Its compact design hides the antenna inside the handset, and the glowing orange keys and display look sharp. The VTech got equally clear reception indoors, but I could stray only a few buildings down the block before buzzing...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cordless Goes Chic | 12/2/2002 | See Source »

...story does stray into that home-childhood-boring-boring territory. Lewis, we learn, craves attention because Daddy ignored him; Martin, so detached he can't connect with anyone, cats around on his wife. The movie doesn't trust us to intuit its insights into its subjects, so we have to hear flat-out from Martin, "My mother always told me, 'Never let anybody know who you are.'" At one point, Hayes is forced to say, "When Jerry Lewis loves, he loves too much, and when Jerry Lewis hates, he hates too much." When this script explains, it explains too much...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Television: Song-and-Dunce Act | 11/25/2002 | See Source »

...impenetrable thickets, producing two litters a year of which all six cubs would survive. From negligible numbers 20 years ago, there are now 100 resident adult leopards in an area half the size of Hong Kong; there are 35 in Bori Budruk alone. With food supplies limited to rats, stray dogs and livestock, leopards found the switch from goats to humans all too easy to stomach. Nature bites back...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Silent Scream | 11/25/2002 | See Source »

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