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...Kurds--numbering about 20 million--are considered the world's largest stateless minority, and on the evidence of this film, their long history of oppression has placed them on an emotional hair trigger. For most of the movie Mirza and his sons are either screaming at or being screamed at by everyone they encounter. This is often comical--except that nearly everyone they meet is also armed...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Half-Mad Iraqi Marvel | 5/26/2003 | See Source »

...ground to powder. It's mold, a key ingredient that is mixed into the steamed rice, which is then spread onto platforms in a sauna-like, cedar-paneled chamber, where the heat and humidity help the mold spores grow. To this mixture Doi will add yeast and water to trigger fermentation...

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

...course, there would be no point to a Matrix game in which you couldn't dodge bullets in slow motion while the camera sweeps around you. You don't have to be a trigger-twitching teen to play: simply press a button, and time slows down, allowing you to deliver martial-arts moves and avoid being strafed at a more middle-aged pace...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: It's Jada's Body, But You Can Use It | 5/12/2003 | See Source »

...will the search for a vaccine. The biotech company GenVec announced plans last week to collaborate with NIAID to insert portions of the coronavirus genome into a weakened cold virus. If the proteins generated by these snippets are powerful enough to trigger an effective immune response, then the resulting vaccine might be successful. NIAID is also coordinating separate U.S. government efforts to develop vaccine candidates. And the U.S. Army Medical Research Institute for Infectious Disease is screening thousands of compounds to see if any might slow or stop the disease...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Truth About SARS | 5/5/2003 | See Source »

Always be willing to pull the trigger and bite the bullet. Opportunities for ass can come anywhere and at any time. You’ll be in the pit, hacking the sack with some hobos, and a slum-honey glory-girl with ink all over her grill will come up to you begging for something erect. It’s your obligation to tell her, “I know I go to Harvard, but this Ivory Tower’s looking for any old hunchback that’ll ring my bell!” Clever shit like that...

Author: By Jacob Rubin, | Title: How To Get Play At Harvard College | 5/1/2003 | See Source »

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