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...licensed ammunition dealer, across the street from a well-kept park with a picket fence. A few kids shoot hoops nearby at a shabby basketball court whose bent rims possibly never even had nets. Somewhere in the direction of the town's lone evangelical church, a weed-whacker hums...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Ebb and Flow in Borneo | 7/15/2009 | See Source »

...Wheat Whacker. Uno Chicago Grill may not be as glamorous as Craft, but at least it's made it easier to dine out with a gluten allergy, with gluten-free pizza at all 200 of its nationwide outlets...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Best Deals and Destinations | 1/16/2009 | See Source »

...Marshall Plan to the Arab world - not in the form of money to rebuild war-torn cities but in the form of ideas to rebuild violence-torn minds. We have no alternative. In my yard there are stubborn patches of crabgrass. It's tempting to take a weed whacker and chop them down, but the crabgrass comes back twice as strong unless you get at its roots...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: How to Prevent Another Mumbai | 12/2/2008 | See Source »

...people most familiar with her legal instincts did not provide much reassurance. "My theory is that she is going to be a Justice very much like Sandra Day O'Connor," says Gary Rice, in words that might cheer moderates but spook anyone looking for someone with a weed whacker who will go after liberal rulings of the past 30 years. "If she moves the law, it will be in small steps. She won't be one to say, 'Let's just throw all that out and do something different.'" One of the most intriguing insights into the Real Harriet Miers...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Two Knocks on Miers | 10/9/2005 | See Source »

...More important, this scrappy little Bush-whacker lured audiences to a movie that made them (gasp!) think, and maybe even act. Leeching instantly into the national and international consciousness, ?Fahrenheit? stoked angry debates about life-and-death issues...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: That Old Feeling: The Year in Docu-politics | 12/20/2004 | See Source »

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