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...Davis became one of those hardy souls, packing a few belongings and driving from her childhood home in Miami to the temporary epicenter of presidential politics, Des Moines, Iowa. "I live in a pretty foul apartment," Davis, 22, says with a cheerful laugh. "I have no furniture except a mattress on the floor and an Ikea nightstand. I live out of my suitcases. I also have a coffee maker and cereal." She endures her Spartan digs, the hot weather, cold weather, countless stump speeches and 15-hour workdays as a staffer, all the while enthusiastically urging Iowans to vote...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Iowa Campaign's Foot Soldiers | 12/5/2007 | See Source »

...easy. “Everyone has their own training regimen,” Mih says. His secret? Canned vegetables. After gorging on the fiber-filled veggies, he copes with the aftermath in the lab he works in. “There’s an air mattress. I kind of lay there for a while.” For those interested in super-eating but fear the health risks, don’t fret. Mih assures us, “There’s always a paramedic on hand...

Author: By Sha Jin, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: When Ramen Really Just Hits the Spot | 10/31/2007 | See Source »

When Dr. Dobson isn’t flogging something fragile and defenseless, evidently he’s one of about twelve American evangelical Christians who didn’t cast off their iron principles like a moth-eaten mattress the moment presidential politics began churning...

Author: By James M. Larkin | Title: For Thirty Pieces of Silver | 10/18/2007 | See Source »

...Harold and Kumar, this is one of the tamer scenes from the latest film by Indonesian director Riri Riza. Three Days to Forever follows two cousins of the opposite sex on a 12-hour road trip from Jakarta to Yogyakarta. Between sharing a bag of weed and, later, a mattress, the protagonists also appear to have managed the extraordinary feat of slipping by the country's infamous censorship body...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Indonesia's 12 Categories of Kisses | 7/20/2007 | See Source »

...tiny room at the back of a Somali restaurant near Port Elizabeth's harbor, Abdi Maolin, 26, has spent 11 months lying on a dirty mattress, eating kitchen leftovers and urinating through a tube attached to his bladder. Propping himself up on his elbows, Abdi digs out a police report that describes how on June 6 last year, six men stormed a Somali grocery store where Abdi and his elder brother Mohammed worked. One shot Mohammed in the forehead, killing him. When Abdi ran, another shot him in the spinal chord, paralyzing him from the chest down. Abdi says...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Apartheid's Victims as Victimizers | 7/9/2007 | See Source »

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