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...accessed by the balcony window, which we couldn't reach, or by going through the common front door, and another door at the top of the interior stairs. We didn't have a key for either one, so Will used the broken fence board paddle to break the glass in the beautiful, antique hand-carved mahogany door...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Canal Street By Canoe | 9/6/2005 | See Source »

Louisiana staggered under the blow, but others all along the Gulf Coast were ravaged as Katrina, still spitting tornadoes and spraying wood and shingles and glass, made her way slowly up to Canada to die at last. A sudden twirl coming ashore meant that the Mississippi coast got smacked the hardest. In many towns, what the winds spared the floods claimed, as the gusts flung water into the streets in storm surges as high as 25 ft. "It was like the houses were playing bumper cars around here," said Biloxi fisherman Alan Layne. There were cemetery coffins tossed around...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Aftermath | 9/4/2005 | See Source »

...museum, owned and operated by the Royal College of Surgeons, isn't for the weak of stomach. One of the first exhibits you'll see upon entry is the preserved intestine of a human fetus, prepared by Hunter for King George III in 1769. Steel-and-glass cabinets house hundreds of other anatomical curiosities: one jar contains the perfectly embalmed face of an 18th century adolescent boy who died from a nasal tumor. The 2.3-m skeleton of Irish giant Charles Byrne, bought by Hunter from an unscrupulous undertaker in 1783, dominates another display...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Museum with Guts | 8/29/2005 | See Source »

...Prime Minister with an attack on the war in Iraq. And don't get him started on GE foods. Otherwise, the accidental actor and activist is content to play vintner. "The best review I ever got for my pinot noir was when they called it sex in a glass," says Neill. "That'll do for me." Cinema-goers can expect a lively vintage...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Smooth Operator | 8/29/2005 | See Source »

...museum, owned and operated by the Royal College of Surgeons, isn't for the weak of stomach. One of the first exhibits you'll see upon entry is the preserved intestine of a human fetus, prepared by Hunter for King George III in 1769. Steel-and-glass cabinets house hundreds of other anatomical curiosities: one jar contains the perfectly embalmed face of an 18th century adolescent boy who died from a nasal tumor. The 2.3-m skeleton of Irish giant Charles Byrne, bought by Hunter from an unscrupulous undertaker in 1783, dominates another display...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Museum with Guts | 8/28/2005 | See Source »

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