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...turns out that few people actually enjoy the taste of pangolin?a scaly anteater whose flesh is a blend of gristle and rubber. The same goes for the nocturnal civet, which has a gamy aftertaste that even the thickest brown sauce can't mask. And who really enjoys camel hump, which tastes just as you'd expect a blubbery lump to taste? But flavor isn't what really matters to many of the diners tucking into China's wildlife menagerie. "Businessmen come here to prove their wealth," says George Ng, a Shanghai-based restaurateur who specialized in cobra and other...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Noxious Nosh | 6/2/2003 | See Source »

...word that something extraordinary was happening spread across the city, the people of Baghdad went out to see for themselves. Some sought out the reporters they once talked to only in the thickest code to tell them awful stories and show their scars. Some sought out soldiers to tell them what to blow up, to urge that every Baath office and safe house be brought down. "We've been waiting for you for a long time," a young man told the first American...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: When The Cheering Stops | 4/21/2003 | See Source »

Imagine the densest, thickest nighttime fog possible. Replace the water droplets with extremely fine dust particles. You can only see about 20 feet in any direction. You cannot see the sun you could just ten minutes earlier. The dust is so fine that even with a shirt pulled over your mouth, you can still taste it. The air smells acrid and charred. Your eyes instantly begin to sting and burn but there is no way to keep the dust out of them...

Author: By Gregory J. Davis, | Title: The End of Innocence: September 11, 2001 | 9/17/2001 | See Source »

...padlock symbol next to it that you probably never knew what to do with--and the lock snaps right into it. Loop the other end around a fixed object, and you're golden. Laptop locks are all pretty much the same, but Kryptonite makes the one with the thickest cable, the 8-mm Mega Key Cable Lock ($49). A company called Kensington also makes a cable lock for Palms, but it's a little cumbersome for anybody but severe kleptophobes...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Laptop Security | 12/18/2000 | See Source »

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Author: By Ari D. Brettman, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: HYPE Pushes Voter Registration | 10/16/2000 | See Source »

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