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When Australian cricket legend Donald Bradman fell ill with peritonitis in London in September 1934, King George V was not amused. "I want to know everything," he reportedly said upon hearing the news. It was a measure of the esteem in which Bradman was held, even by his nemeses the English...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Good Innings | 9/11/2008 | See Source »

Thomas Huckle Weller was born on June 15, 1915 in Ann Arbor, Mich. The son and grandson of physicians—his father, Carl V. Weller was a pathologist at the University of Michigan Medical School—Weller would receive his A.B. and S.M. degrees from the university...

Author: By June Q. Wu and Esther I. Yi, CRIMSON STAFF WRITERS | Title: Weller, Nobel-Prize Winning Public Health Researcher, Dead at 93 | 9/5/2008 | See Source »

...blood (sold as Tru Blood [sic], in six-packs). Humans are skeptical that they've really been taken off the menu--antivamp hate crimes abound--but they're also fascinated. There's a subculture of "fangbangers" who crave vampire sex, and in a clever inversion, a brisk trade in "v," vampire blood, which intensifies the senses and acts like extra-strength Viagra...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Undead on Arrival | 9/4/2008 | See Source »

...stood atop his boat, Miss Brandy. He built the boat 15 year ago and named it after his daughter, who is now 36 years old. Luke is portly, with a thick beard, and on this afternoon wore a faded red t-shirt with a kind of self-made v-neck. A bit of hair poked out. Despite the warnings about Gustav, Luke holed himself up in Miss Brandy, along with his deckhand, Charlie. "Things was bad," Luke says of Gustav. "We had a lot of wind, but not a lot of water." The water, he estimates, rose about three feet...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Where Gustav Came Ashore | 9/3/2008 | See Source »

...profit incentive for criminals and the attendant violence would largely disappear. This would also leave the fighting of drug abuse to medical and social-welfare professionals and free law enforcement to deal with real criminals instead of those deemed criminals solely through the idiosyncrasies of the law. Stephen V. Gilmore, CHARLOTTE...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Pointing Fingers over Georgia | 9/2/2008 | See Source »

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