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...Unlike every modern epic from Star Wars to Harry Potter, this one isn?t spurred by revenge (you killed my father, so I must wipe out your civilization). Here, love is the driving force (I will do anything to keep you alive), making The Fountain the rare quest film with a hero as selfless as he is besotted. Izzy calls Tom ?my conquistador!? and she?s not kidding...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: I Admit It: I Liked The Fountain | 11/22/2006 | See Source »

...mosquitoes in the room. Having been massacred by mosquitoes the night before despite smearing myself with repellent, I piled half a dozen zappers onto the counter, along with a loaf of bread, some cheese and crackers and some bottles of water. The woman at the register proceeded to wipe the dust off each item in turn before ringing...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Booming India, Short on Malls | 11/16/2006 | See Source »

...infection persists according to Pier. “[Risk] is attributed to close physical contact of the sort you get while playing sports and…sharing things within a locker-room – anything from towels or any type of cloth that might be used to wipe sweat off,” he said. Pier also did not rule out the notion–advanced by the New England Journal of Medicine in a 2003 study of the NFL’s St. Louis Rams–that artificial turf fields of the sort recently installed in Harvard...

Author: By Christian B. Flow, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Infection Strikes Varsity Football Team | 9/27/2006 | See Source »

Clearly, the cycle has to be broken somewhere, and the good folks of Madrid should be applauded for trying. Alas, they picked on the scrawniest link in the whole fashion chain, the model. It's like trying to wipe out Lyme disease by killing Bambi...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Real Skinny | 9/25/2006 | See Source »

...Would negotiations with Iran and Hizballah persuade them to give up their attempts to wipe Israel off the map? I doubt that. History teaches us that it is important to believe the declared intentions of megalomaniacs. Jeffrey Fillman Boston...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters | 8/21/2006 | See Source »

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