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...appears Chae was able to enter the premises of the ancient gate fairly easily. According to police, the 70-year-old climbed over a wall and used a ladder to enter the pavilion Sunday night, and set the blaze using three bottles of paint thinner just before 9 pm. Like many of Korea's historical buildings, the ancient gate was guarded only until the early evening. At night, a security camera was in place to keep out intruders, although homeless people have often huddled in around the structure. But the gate didn't have smoke detectors, or a sprinkler system...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Can Korea Protect Its Historical Sites? | 2/13/2008 | See Source »

...many states and too few resources. Super Tuesday will be another step into uncharted territory in this unusually competitive, uniquely front-loaded campaign. In the absence of wall-to-wall television ads, what role will online communications play? Will turnout remain high as campaign field operations are stretched thinner than pantyhose? If the enthusiasm wanes, who stays home - Obama's kids or Hillary's geezers? "I'm confident that we will turn out more young voters than ever before," says Riemer, "but what size piece of the puzzle that ultimately is, I just...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Year of the Youth Vote | 1/31/2008 | See Source »

That pressure has pitted manufacturers against one another to come up with thinner, lighter, cleaner LCDs. Sharp plans to build a $3.4 billion factory near Osaka to produce bigger screens more efficiently. Yet, Teragawa says, as flat screens grew in popularity, the products became virtually indistinguishable from one another...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sharp's Way of Reshaping Television | 11/29/2007 | See Source »

...sixth week Manuel, too, was nervous about his knee. He looked a little thinner, a little pale. Nerves? I asked about it. He said he had lost some weight - but he had been trying to. He added in a mumble, "maybe it's just water weight...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: When Surgery Succeeds, But Healing Fails | 11/9/2007 | See Source »

...While the eldest in an overpopulated brood has it relatively easy-getting 100% of the food the parents have available-things get stretched thinner when a second-born comes along. Later-borns put even more pressure on resources. Over time, everyone might be getting the same rations, but the firstborn still enjoys a caloric head start that might never be overcome...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Power of Birth Order | 10/17/2007 | See Source »

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