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...once) to redoubtable Georgian manors where the glassware tinkled with clarion clarity and no wine was served before its time.'' Beneath these cracks there sometimes appears a healthy anger with almost as many teeth as Jaws. Not a bad attribute for a for a man who wants to exchange wet fantasies for dry humor. As Johnson (Samuel, not Lyndon) once observed, ''Of all the griefs that harass the distrest,/ Sure the most bitter is a scornful jest...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ICONOCLASM ''Q'' CLEARANCE by Peter Benchley Random House; 340 pages; $16.95 | 7/21/2008 | See Source »

Alleged MILEY CYRUS wet T shirt photo shatters dreams of innocent...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Pop Chart | 7/17/2008 | See Source »

...cooking from all corners of China to haute cuisine from world-renowned chefs like New York City's Daniel Boulud, who has been in the capital to supervise the soft opening of his first restaurant outside the U.S. Recently, Boulud and I toured one of the city's bustling wet markets, then dined on our purchases at the new eatery, in a building off Tiananmen Square that housed the American embassy until the communist revolution in 1949. "Beijing has been slow in catching up, but now it is going through a renaissance," says Boulud...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Beijing's Revolution | 7/17/2008 | See Source »

...morning in August I couldn't drag her anymore. She buried herself right there on the beach. Broke up under her own weight. The sand really did close up over her. I found the mound it made years later and dug. You could still smell the wet wood in the discolored sand underneath. But there was no boat there any more. Reduced to tiny particles. It's what happens to man-made things, around salty water...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: This Aquatic Life | 7/15/2008 | See Source »

...another point Lt. Col. Beaver - who has retired from the military and now serves the Pentagon in a civilian capacity - asks, "Does SERE employ the 'wet towel' technique [a reference to waterboarding]?" The CIA lawyer answers: "If a well-trained individual is used to perform this technique it can feel like you're drowning. The lymphatic system will react as if you're suffocating, but your body will not cease to function...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Seeking Answers on Detainee Abuse | 6/17/2008 | See Source »

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