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...conversational tone and juvenile literary devices would be appealing to your younger siblings as well. For example, I am still wondering why it was necessary to personify the body’s immune system as “Bob”: “If Bob is weak, you are ill more often, more seriously, and for more time,” Oz explains...

Author: By Lee ann W. Custer, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: College Weight Gain Is Avoidable | 11/6/2006 | See Source »

...MOST COMMON DINOSAURS AS 'THE COWS OF THE MESOZOIC.' He has found the remnants of one dinosaur herd?an estimated 10,000 waddling, plant-eating duckbills. Even Tyrannosaurus rex seems less terrible in his revisionist view. Horner believes it followed herds of triceratops, scavenging carcasses and occasionally preying on weak individuals, much as hyenas follow wildebeests in Africa." Read more at timearchive.com...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters | 11/5/2006 | See Source »

With U.N.-approved sanctions strangling its already weak economy following an Oct. 9 nuke test, North Korea agreed to resume six-nation talks on disarmament, possibly as early as this month...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: What's Next: Nov. 13, 2006 | 11/5/2006 | See Source »

...truth is our characteristic and so we are. Lying is their characteristic. Iraq's mountains, wildernesses and plains will be our witness We help the weak but when we strike, we strike the elite...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Verdict Closes a Grim Trial Full of Theatrics | 11/5/2006 | See Source »

...penalty cases to provincial courts. The idea was that this would expedite death sentencing and curb crime. Legal scholars and death penalty opponents (a minority in China) complained that this devolving of authority had been illegal to begin with, but in a country where the rule of law is weak, their concerns didn't get much traction...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: China's Message on Executions | 11/3/2006 | See Source »

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