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...Kevin Durant: People are still on that, man. I just tell people that it really doesn't matter. I mean, if I drop [in the draft] because I didn't lift 185 pounds, then it's a big thing. But people say I'm not going to drop at all. So I just let that slide off. But it got to me a little bit at first...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Q&A: Kevin Durant on NBA Draft Day | 6/28/2007 | See Source »

Like its poverty, Guinea-Bissau's landscape proved ideal for drug cartels. Its 350-km coastline, with 50 or so uninhabited islands, offers excellent drop-off points for drug vessels, and planes can deliver drugs to any number of Portuguese-built airstrips that have been abandoned for years as the country has no planes. "This is an open space where you can do anything," says a military officer from another African country who is stationed in Guinea-Bissau as part of a cooperation agreement. "There is no plane. No radar. Nothing...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cocaine Country | 6/27/2007 | See Source »

This was nothing short of culinary nirvana. “A revelation!” exclaimed my brother while trying not to spill any of the perfectly seasoned broth trapped inside the dumplings. I could hardly blame him—it seemed a waste to let even a single drop go unsavored...

Author: By Clifford M. Marks | Title: Street Food | 6/25/2007 | See Source »

...incompetence of Iraqi forces helps to explain why, after a sharp drop in the early weeks of the surge, the civilian death toll from sectarian violence has begun to climb. Nearly 2,000 Iraqis were killed in May, the highest since the start of the security crackdown. The familiar signs of Shi'ite militia activity have returned: grossly mutilated bodies of Sunnis are turning up in the streets and Sunni residents in mixed neighborhoods are again being forced out of their homes. Sunni suicide bombings have multiplied...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Brutal New Tactics In Iraq | 6/25/2007 | See Source »

...office. An avowed nationalist who doubts that the Japanese military actually forced women into prostitution, Nakagawa expresses irritation at the very idea of the U.S. lecturing Japan on wartime atrocities. "I want to ask Americans whether they were fair during the war. That's why I say, let's drop...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Japan Bristles at U.S. WWII Criticism | 6/25/2007 | See Source »

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