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...falls on the just as well as the unjust. Consumers have stopped spending, factories have stopped operating, employers have stopped hiring - and home values continue to fall. For millions of people, the margin between getting by and getting buried is becoming as thin and as bloody as a razor blade...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: House of Cards: The Faces Behind Foreclosures | 2/27/2009 | See Source »

After examining the two, Flores discovered both had been bitten on their toes; the clean incisions and the profuse bleeding were telltale signs of a vampire bat attack. The vampire's bite is quick and razor sharp, so the sleeping victim doesn't feel the incision; and the animal's saliva contains a strong anticoagulating agent that leaves the victim bleeding for hours after the bite...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nicaragua's Vampire Problem | 2/27/2009 | See Source »

...night when the teams of Quincy and Winthrop assembled under the lights of Harvard Stadium, prepared to carry on the hallowed tradition of football. But this was not just any football—this was flag football, the real sport of champions, a sport that requires agility, speed, and razor-sharp hand-eye coordination. You can’t just will the flags off a person’s waist; you must grab them with the precision of a karate master snatching a fly from the air, to achieve the greatness of Jared’s pants before the Subway...

Author: By Tomo Lazovich and Marcel E. Moran | Title: A Sporting Proposition | 2/6/2009 | See Source »

...newer, higher-quality version called ColorCode. "It doesn't bleed colors out the way the old anaglyph glasses did," says Katzenberg. "But consider this a warm-up for the movie-theater experience, which, honestly, is 100 times higher quality than you could see on TV. This is like a Razor scooter compared to the Ferrari experience of seeing it in a theater...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Super Bowl Ads: Get Out the 3-D Glasses | 1/30/2009 | See Source »

...rumors of a Mai Mai counterattack. On their heads and wooden bicycles they carried mattresses, sacks of potatoes, children. The Indian soldiers at the base drove two armored personnel carriers 300 ft. (90 m) outside. They kept 30 more carriers, tanks, jeeps and trucks in neat lines behind the razor wire and limited their interaction with the crowd to shooing them off an adjacent helipad. The refugees built tents of sticks and rags in front of the gates. "Nobody ever gets into the base," said Meshaq Shebani, 22, a roadside diesel vendor. He eyed the rows of yellow...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Congo Seeks Protection | 1/29/2009 | See Source »

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