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According to a Tehran resident with a contact at the shuttered prison, four converted warehouses each held approximately a thousand prisoners, with individual partitions packed to the brim with men, many of whom were forced to stand up because of the lack of room; food and water were also in tight supply, according to the source. On a recent day, the road leading up to Kahrizak was closed, and there seemed to be no activity in the neighborhood, which is dotted with green fields...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Neda's Grave: A Shrine to Anger at Iran's Regime | 9/1/2009 | See Source »

...turn, are paying more for units at auctions and at trade-in time, and they're not shy about passing their costs on to you. "It may get to the point where used cars are so expensive that it may be worth buying a new car for a few thousand dollars more, and the market will be back to the way it used to be," says Ed Olsen, the sales manager at Boulder Nissan. (See the 50 worst cars of all time...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Clunker Debunker | 8/31/2009 | See Source »

...specific to varietal, year or even South Africa, appearing in wines from other countries too. And the answer to how South Africa can produce some of the world's best and most keenly priced wines but still catch flak internationally is obvious to anyone who has compared a thousand-bottle wine list in Cape Town to the tiny shelf of cheap table wine labeled South African in their local store. "We export the crud," says a manager at a leading Cape Winelands exporter, requesting anonymity...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cape Crusaders: South African Wine | 8/26/2009 | See Source »

...world's longest poem - over 1.8 million words, containing over one hundred thousand verses and approximately ten times the length of the Iliad and Odyssey combined. And now India's celebrated epic the Mahabharata, the writing of which began around 300 B. C. by the venerated Hindu figure Vyasa, is being written again - one 140-character tweet at a time...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Tweeting the World's Longest Poem | 8/21/2009 | See Source »

...thousand calories, that...

Author: By Maxwell L. Child, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: The Best Cheap Eats in the Square | 8/20/2009 | See Source »

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