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...Sunday, Metzler traveled by boat down a river that was formerly one of the area's busiest streets to find waist-high water in his establishment, Coral Lanes. "That's a disaster, a goner," he says of the 56-year-old bowling alley on First Avenue that he's owned since just after Iowa's devastating 1993 flood. (There is debate about whether Iowa's 2008 flood has been even more devastating...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Iowa: After the Flooding, the Waiting | 6/16/2008 | See Source »

...year ago, a slender girl called Cloud had no idea she would dedicate her life to lifting disks of iron above her head. Then a stranger came to her remote village in eastern China's Shandong province, took detailed measurements of her shoulder width, thigh length and waist circumference--and announced she would have the honor of serving her motherland as a weight lifter. The then 14-year-old daughter of vegetable farmers had little choice in the matter. She had been chosen to be a cog in China's vast sports machine, a multibillion-dollar apparatus designed with...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: China's Sports School: Crazy for Gold | 6/12/2008 | See Source »

...event greeting well-wishers, taking photos, and accepting thanks from seniors and their families. At one point the former treasury secretary was asked to sign a dollar bill. He obliged.“He’s very famous,” a mother told her child, not even waist-high, pointing at Summers.When the child, four-year old James Corcoran, made his way to the front of the line, he was rewarded with plenty of attention.“To James,” Summers said, reading aloud a message he had written down...

Author: By Christian B. Flow, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Seniors Pay Tribute to Former President | 6/4/2008 | See Source »

...He’s very famous,” a mother told her child, not even waist-high, pointing at Summers...

Author: By Christian B. Flow, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Seniors Celebrate Summers | 6/2/2008 | See Source »

...seen not just from the front but also from high overhead, where the camera reveals that she's actually walking on an urban rooftop with an alpine backdrop in place of the real thing. A miniskirted woman lying on a tile floor is photographed in color from the waist down--a perspective that suggests she's holding the camera. A black-and-white image of the same torso shot from around a corner strips away the playfulness and eroticism and suggests nothing so much as a crime scene...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Barbara Probst | 5/29/2008 | See Source »

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