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...imagined the FBI sweeping in and rounding us all up for trespassing. That would be a hell of a way to miss an inauguration. It turned out we had not trespassed. We emerged from under the Theodore Roosevelt bridge, tromped across Constitution Gardens, and reached the array of virgin portable toilets and as-yet-unmanned police barricades that marked the beginning of the viewing area behind the Washington monument. We were still over a mile from the Capitol steps on which the president-elect would take his oath. Here I broke off from my unticketed acquaintances. My older brother?...

Author: By Max J Kornblith, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: No Country for Late Men | 2/12/2009 | See Source »

Cross-Country Discount. Going head-to-head with Virgin America, which just started new service to Boston, JetBlue is offering $105 one-way tickets between Los Angeles and Boston or New York's JFK. There are some restrictions: fares are valid only for travel on Tuesday, Wednesday or Saturday between June 17 and July 24, excluding June...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Fashion Week's Couture Tea Cakes and Other Travel News | 2/9/2009 | See Source »

...life and contamination would be less of a concern. If there really were a second genesis on Mars, "contamination by even one Earth bacterium may be a serious issue of environmental ethics," McKay writes. We only have to look back at the damage that invasive species have inflicted on virgin territory on our planet, like the infamous cane toads that ravaged Australia, to know what Earth bacteria could do on an alien surface. (See pictures of Mars' surface patterns...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Are We Bringing Our Germs to Mars? | 2/5/2009 | See Source »

Often seen swathed in animal skins and surrounded by a posse of virgin female bodyguards, the colorful leader has become as well known for his unusual personality as for his controversial political moves, the latest of which included celebrating convicted Lockerbie bomber Abdel Basset Ali al-Megrahi's return to Libya. Never one to stray far from the limelight, Gaddafi marks his 40th year in power on Sept. 1 - a milestone that makes him the third longest serving head of state in the world after King Bhumibol Adulyadej of Thailand and Britain's Queen Elizabeth II. (See a gallery...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Muammar Gaddafi | 2/3/2009 | See Source »

...legal career, Mortimer was as eloquent defending others' words as he was in choosing his own. He won obscenity cases for the publisher of Last Exit to Brooklyn and for Virgin Records, defending the Sex Pistols' debut album...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: John Mortimer | 1/21/2009 | See Source »

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