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...mistake, but you must understand we had limited trucks and there were a lot of men arrested. Also, if they were normal people?and not fasting or on drugs, as I suspect many of them were?they would probably not have died." The men were taken to the military base at Pattani 150 km away. By the time the convoy arrived about six hours later, 78 of the men in the trucks had suffocated to death...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Thailand's Bloody Monday | 11/1/2004 | See Source »

...reception in a Tokyo hotel when a bouquet on the counter begins to emit gentle music. Has your green tea been spiked? No, the management has invested in a Ka-on, a device from Nagoya-based telecom equipment maker Let's Corp. (www.lets-co.co.jp) that turns any posy into a loudspeaker. The Ka-on (Japanese for flower sound) consists of a vase into which users insert floral designs?the works are hidden in the base. Hook it up to a CD player, stereo or TV, and the Ka-on relays the sound up the plants' stems. According to the company, gerberas...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Tech Watch | 11/1/2004 | See Source »

...Manny Ramirez--hailed EL MILAGRO POR LOS MEDIAS ROJAS. But some credit for the Red Sox miracle has to go to the Yankees--who, after building a three- game lead, forgot how to play Yankee baseball. They showed little patience at the plate and too much on the base paths--and in the case of ace closer Mariano Rivera, didn't automatically stifle the opposition. The result: a team with a $184 million payroll (the Red Sox are second, at $127 million) performed the most crushing seven-game swan dive the grand old game ever witnessed...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Is the Curse Reversed? | 11/1/2004 | See Source »

...results show a more conservative student base across the country: 59 percent of the nation’s college students preferred Sen. Kerry, with 39 percent supporting President Bush...

Author: By Rebecca D. O’brien, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Kerry Tops Crimson Poll | 10/29/2004 | See Source »

...with selling t-shirts last week which proclaimed, “Yale Sucks, Jeter Swallows.” Members of the BGLTSA (closet Yankee fans, surely) denounced the club’s allusions to Eli-on-Eli fellatio and the New York shortstop’s exploits at third base. Ultimately, Satire V was forced to look in the mirror and face the truth: homophobia just doesn’t exude the same retro-cool of racism and anti-Semitism—which totally blows, but what are you gonna...

Author: By Michael M. Grynbaum, Sarah M. Seltzer, and Zachary M. Seward, CRIMSON STAFF WRITERSS | Title: Gadfly; The Week in Buzz | 10/28/2004 | See Source »

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