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...later had a partial view of Hurley pummeling Doomadgee. In his summing up at the trial in Townsville, prosecutor Peter Davis scoffed at the idea that a man could land on another with sufficient force to "cleave his liver in two almost across his spine" and not have the faintest idea that he'd caused any damage...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: No Winners | 7/10/2008 | See Source »

...Crazy Hair told me to try my hand at parallel parking. I decided it wasn’t my finest work—seeing as my car was perpendicular to the curb. She didn’t seem to agree.She leaned over to congratulate me, and I caught the faintest hint of cheap Pinot Grigio on her breath. My assessment of her sobriety was quickly confirmed as she took a dive out the passenger side of the car, landing face down in a snow bank.My mom, standing on the curb, looked horrified. I gave her the thumbs up.Back at home...

Author: By Alyssa N. Wolff, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Driving Miss Crazy | 3/19/2008 | See Source »

Apparently, resounding electoral defeat has left France's ruling conservatives a little hard of hearing. Because scarcely minutes after the opposition Socialists registered dramatic advances in the final round of country-wide municipal polling on Sunday evening, members of the French government claimed they hadn't heard the faintest note of voter disgruntlement. Despite a drubbing in towns and cities across France, officials in President Nicolas Sarkozy's cabinet pledged they'd continue their reformist drive with even more energy than before...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sarkozy's Party Lags in Elections | 3/17/2008 | See Source »

...televise 10 years of IPL tournaments, the first of which starts April 18 and goes for six weeks. While it's probably advisable at least to try not to sound like a self-righteous fuddy-duddy when examining this enterprise, it's all but impossible for anyone with the faintest appreciation of cricket's traditions not to be deeply concerned...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cricket's Deal with the Devil | 2/22/2008 | See Source »

Take the dime in your wallet. Now imagine a chip no larger than a fraction of that coin that can detect the faintest traces of thousands of different chemicals, using over 32 different infrared light-emitting lasers...

Author: By Maeve T. Wang, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Tiny Chip Could Solve Real-World Problems | 12/13/2007 | See Source »

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