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...Fans and journalists had lined up for hours, clutching memorabilia and wearing T shirts, and numerous individuals posing as journalists were removed from the media line. "I'm sorry, but you're not on the list," the doorman told one blonde woman with a slight accent, to which she replied, "But I've come all the way from Norway...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Michael Jackson's 'Final Curtain Call' | 3/5/2009 | See Source »

Paleoanthropologist Donald C. Johanson is the man who found the woman that shook up our family tree. In 1974, Johanson discovered a 3.2 million-year-old fossil of a female skeleton in Ethiopia that would forever change our understanding of human origins. Dubbed Australopithecus afarensis, she became known to the world as Lucy. In the years since, Johanson and his colleagues have unearthed a total of 363 specimens of Australopithecus afarensis that span 400,000 years. His new book, Lucy's legacy: The Quest for Human Origins picks up where his 1981 New York Times bestseller, Lucy: The Beginning...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Q&A: 'Lucy' Discoverer Donald C. Johanson | 3/4/2009 | See Source »

...Used to terminate bad call-ins with "The Caller Abortion" - the sound of a vacuum cleaner and a woman's scream...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Conservative Radio Host Rush Limbaugh | 3/4/2009 | See Source »

...something woman moves swiftly down the Rue de Rivoli, gray hair pulled back, looking like an iconic grandmother or retired grade school teacher. But as she runs a red light and speeds into a crosswalk filled with people, the woman slaloms her large bicycle between startled pedestrians - barking at them to stand clear despite their having the right of way. "Dégagez!" She shouts the order to give way. "Why are people so stupid?" (See pictures of the U.S.'s National Bike Month...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Postcard from Paris: Cyclists Behaving Badly | 3/4/2009 | See Source »

...deaths": Though the Indian media has devoted substantial coverage to fire-related deaths in public areas like schools and movie theaters, far less attention has been dedicated to incidents that occur within the home, especially those known as "dowry deaths." "A dowry death is the killing of a young woman by members of her conjugal family for bringing insufficient dowry, and is commonly executed by first dousing the woman with kerosene and then setting her alight," the report notes. But too often, such murders are disguised as accidents or suicides. "It is well known," the authors write, "that police...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Why Indian Fires Are Deadlier for Women | 3/4/2009 | See Source »

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