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...briefly appeared on Smallville in 2003, playing a scientist examining the young Clark Kent. A show "jumps the shark" when its ratings stunts smack of desperation. The phrase was inspired by a a three-part Happy Days special in 1977 in which Fonzie jumped over a shark pen on water skis; fans point to it as the specific moment the show started its decline. (Jumpingtheshark.com is devoted to analyzing ratings stunts to identify exactly those instances for current TV shows...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sweeps Week | 10/29/2009 | See Source »

...Koran, there are no camels.”The illustrious Buenos Aires author was a little off: The Koran actually does allude to camels twice, in passages 6:144 and 22:36. But despite the humps in his logic, Borges’s argument still holds water. The unfortunate truth is that many books written by non-Western novelists in English—especially those by South Asian authors—rely on the equivalent of camels for effect, peppering works with spices and ceremonies, arranged marriages and zany in-laws: in short, deploying the stalest, most predictable tropes...

Author: By Jessica A. Sequeira | Title: The Occidental Tourist | 10/29/2009 | See Source »

...just think it’s very difficult to find an alternative explanation for sodium azide in the water. That’s it,” he said...

Author: By Naveen N. Srivatsa, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Poision Victim Alleges Foul Play | 10/28/2009 | See Source »

...tell which lining you've got? Peer inside your bottle. If it's a shiny coppery-bronze, it's the old, BPA-infused liner. If it's a pale matte yellow, you've got the EcoCare liner, a new powder-based, co-polyester, water-based liner that SIGG says is 100% BPA- and phthalate-free...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: How Green Is Your SIGG Water Bottle? | 10/27/2009 | See Source »

...owned horse ranches in the desert, their father refused to let them have toys, take modern medicine or use almost any modern conveniences except for lightbulbs, automobiles and firearms. Though Osama would punish his boys for laughing or smiling and send them on forced marches in the desert without water, Omar and his brothers could at least console themselves with the honor of being sons of the man who helped defeat the Soviet Union in Afghanistan, a hero in both the Muslim world and the West. "When I was a young boy, I worshipped my father, whom I believed...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Growing Up bin Laden: Osama's Son Speaks | 10/27/2009 | See Source »

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