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...photojournalist Tomas Van Houtryve visited North Korea by infiltrating a communist solidarity delegation. In the final story in his three-part TIME.com series, Van Houtryve recounts the almost-invention of the North Korea Chocolate Company...
...took place among art of a different kind—the modern visual pieces in the Sculpture Garden. As my ears learned new ways of making a piano and a trombone combine, my eyes tried to dissect what looked like a giant pulley—Claes Oldenburg and Coosje van Bruggen’s Typewriter Eraser, Scale X, I later learned...
...Koran and deporting any Muslim who breaks the law. His rhetoric recalls Pim Fortuyn, the Dutch politician gunned down in 2002, days before an election that would almost certainly have given him a parliamentary platform to air his hard-line views on immigration. Fortuyn's friend and compatriot Theo van Gogh was working on a film about Fortuyn's assassination when he himself was murdered in 2004. His killer, a Dutch Muslim of Moroccan descent angered by Submission, Van Gogh's polemic against Islam, left a note on the body signed "Saifu Deen al-Muwahhied." Wilders had been threatened...
...movie chronicles, minor attacks suddenly made headlines--a surfer recalls getting bit on the leg and a news van beating the ambulance to the scene. TV choppers swarmed the Gulf of Mexico, and Larry King asked, "Are sharks rebelling?" (Full disclosure: TIME ran a "Summer of the Shark" cover.) But by season's end, fewer people had been attacked by sharks in the U.S. than during the summer before...
...driver unconscious with an iron bar; the victim never worked again and died seven years later. Biggs was sentenced to 30 years in prison for his part in the incident, but he escaped after 15 months by scaling a 30-ft. (9 m) wall and jumping into a furniture van. After more than 35 years on the run in Australia and Brazil, Biggs returned to the U.K. in 2001 for medical treatment. (See the top 10 heists of all time...