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...learning how little you know. The Pixar animators had to learn a lot about what Stanton calls "the voodoo of underwater things. Things lose color when they go away from you and gain color when they come closer to you. There's crap in the water, and surge and swell." All this had to be analyzed or guessed at. "It was like somebody gave you a cake and said, 'O.K., figure out what ingredients it takes to make this,' but with no cookbook. And you're just going, 'I think I taste egg ...I think I taste sugar...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Hook, Line and Thinker | 5/26/2003 | See Source »

...Enjoying sake properly employs all the senses. First, listen for a clear, springlike glug as it is poured. Next, look for clarity, sheen and color in the liquor. Then sniff the brew for its bouquet and personality. Taste for all those things, and feel it swell going down. Come to think of it, you don't really need cherry blossoms...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Going with the Grain | 5/19/2003 | See Source »

...Their numbers will swell in the coming days, even as government and GAM officials debate the future of the province and the soldiers keep arriving. In many Acehnese villages, boys run up to passersby to shout "Merdeka! (freedom)." For many GAM leaders, the word is still synonymous with independence. But among their people, who have had a first, unforgettable taste of peace, it also means freedom from fear and a chance to finally live a normal life. "We want our children to be able to go to school, get educated, stand on their feet," says teacher Mariani passionately. "A military...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: War in the Peace Zone? | 5/19/2003 | See Source »

...named the Hillary Step, desperately hoping it could be scaled. In 1953, so much of modern mountaineering was still to be discovered. Archaic clothing and tents made Everest's frigid temperatures lethal. Oxygen bottles were three times heavier than today's. Deadly altitude illnesses, little understood, caused brains to swell and lungs to fill with fluid. Because lightweight radios had yet to be invented, it wasn't until Hillary and Tenzing had descended to within a few hundred meters of advanced base camp and Hillary held up two fingers in victory that the world learned Everest had finally been conquered...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: In Hillary and Tenzing's Bootprints | 5/12/2003 | See Source »

...just got attacked. I stabbed them a couple times...I have a killer headache...I had a swell time tonight. I hope you guys made it home,” Pring-Wilson said on the message, according to Lynch...

Author: By Jenifer L. Steinhardt, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Judge Denies Bail to Harvard Grad Student | 4/21/2003 | See Source »

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