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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...filing cabinets. "If somebody had been taking their passport picture an hour earlier, you can see what would have happened," he notes, pointing to the tall metal column that has fallen on the precise spot where people sit to be photographed. At the door of another office, a bookshelf has collapsed onto a chair. "If somebody had been sitting at that desk," he says, not finishing his sentence...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Loneliest Quake on the Planet | 6/1/2008 | See Source »

When I was 13, I secretly read my parents' old copy of Dr. David Reuben's Everything You Always Wanted to Know About Sex, first published in 1969. Standing nervously at the bookshelf, I was poised to replace the volume quickly if I heard footsteps. The chapter on homosexuality explained, "The homosexual must constantly search for the one man, the one penis, the one experience, that will satisfy him. He is the sexual Diogenes, always looking for the penis that pleases. That is the reason he must change partners endlessly. [In gay marriages] the principals never stop cruising. They...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Are Gay Relationships Different? | 1/17/2008 | See Source »

That was too much for the wild card Republican libertarian Ron Paul, who warned of "fascism ... carrying a Cross." (Huckabee's reply: Sometimes a bookshelf is just a bookshelf.) But then, the line between sacred and secular has always been blurry at this time of year--check out all the White House Christmas trees. The Iowa situation is regrettable because it's so arbitrary and unnecessary. There's no good reason for the campaigns to be crammed into the week reserved for family and faith. It's just the sad result of jealous competition among states over the chance...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: 'Tis the Season ... | 12/20/2007 | See Source »

...iTube Valve Dock Housed in an industrial, black chassis, the Fatman iTube Valve Dock Carbon Edition ($1,000) will give the sound of your MP3 player a corpulence you never thought possible. The iTube features extra audio jacks for your CD player and comes with a pair of black bookshelf speakers. www.fat-man.co.uk...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Tubular Belles | 11/21/2007 | See Source »

...daily password to whisper into the tiny loudspeaker) are available to all via the bar's website bourbonandbranch.com but remain hard to come by for much of the week. To meet demand, the venue expanded into a third room for standing patrons, accessed via another secret door behind a bookshelf. Despite the excitement in the bar, no loud celebrating is permitted in the seated section, with those patrons who don't "speak easy" escorted to the clearly labeled exit...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Hidden Bars | 11/19/2007 | See Source »

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