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...normal citizens has turned what had been a series of sporadic rallies into the largest sustained display of dissent in Burma in nearly two decades. "The people's only weapons are their hands," said an elderly teacher watching the procession of protestors with teary eyes. "The government wants to wipe them out, but the people are not afraid...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Burma's Agony | 9/27/2007 | See Source »

...ONLINE GAMING 3 Hours after which a new software program in Internet cafés, mandated by the Chinese government on July 16, will remind gamers to "do suitable physical exercise." If gamers log on for more than five hours, the program will wipe out their points 3.5 million Number of World of Warcraft subscribers in China

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Verbatim | 7/19/2007 | See Source »

...flood of supplies to Saudi Arabia for the 1991 Gulf War and their orderly withdrawal from the region, cites one more often overlooked hurdle: U.S. agricultural inspectors insist that, before it re-enters the U.S., Army equipment be free of any microscopic disease that, as Pagonis puts it, "can wipe out flocks of chickens and stuff like that...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: How to Leave Iraq | 7/19/2007 | See Source »

...will race this season, the varsity eight and a four will compete at another regatta at the start of July, this time across the pond at England’s Henley Royal Regatta. The rowers will remain in Cambridge until the end of June to practice, looking perhaps to wipe out any recently-created doubts about their success this season...

Author: By Alexandra C. Bell, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Yale Tops Crew In Annual Boat Race | 6/12/2007 | See Source »

...Chez Panisse in Berkeley, Calif. Several other high-end Bay Area spots have also gone tap-only, and soon Del Posto, Mario Batali's expensive Manhattan joint, will join them. I'm betting that fine-dining establishments will eventually follow my environmental lead on napkins too and let diners wipe their mouths with their sleeves...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Making of a Water Snob | 6/7/2007 | See Source »

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