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...this feels more like a '70s flashback. It's not just that Zac Efron's hair is almost as shaggy as Shaun Cassidy's or that jeans are once again worn tight enough to read Braille through the back pocket. It's the whole feckless, zipless, helpless vibe that has settled across the land, from the factories of Motor City to the gas lines of Charlotte, from the boardrooms of New York to the subdivisions of California. What's that word again? Oh, yes: malaise...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Moment | 10/2/2008 | See Source »

...distribution of films during the holiday, but publicity will be most affected. The worst-hit area looks to be television, with the fate of dozens of serials, reality shows and daily programs looking grim. "We are not happy to call for this noncooperation," Chaturvedi says, "but we are helpless...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Bollywood Strike Hits Festival Season | 10/2/2008 | See Source »

...leaves. The dextrous and stealthy white and black sifaka has springlike legs that propel it through the forest like a cat, in quiet, arcing leaps. Watching them move is a mesmerizing experience; it's easy to see how well lemurs have adapted to their native forest, and how helpless they must be when that habitat is lost...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: What Madagascar Needs is a Mascot | 10/1/2008 | See Source »

...message. After a decade of war, Nepal is still counting the cost of violence, chronic energy and food shortages, and the loss of its best and brightest to jobs overseas. It's easy for the country's neighbors to see it as it was in its kingly past - a helpless, compliant pawn in the geo-political games of others. But, as Dahal and his government attempt to refashion the nation, most Nepalis - beginning with the Prime Minister - want India and China to see a Nepal finally standing on its own feet...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nepal's New PM Makes the Rounds | 9/22/2008 | See Source »

...prefer the outdoors.” The captain of the ship approached them, and Roxanna’s employers lapsed into an uneasy silence that had lasted to the present.What might the quarrel be? Neither appeared to be angry. They seemed to regard each other with a kind of helpless terror, which Roxanna optimistically interpreted as worry.She looked down at the paper in her hand:The StableFelicitous, my fate, of late, is not.I feel as though I’ve been most cruelly shot,By heartache’s arrow, so strong, and long, and hard.And now against whole ruin...

Author: By Lesley R. Winters, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: The Stable Boy | 9/19/2008 | See Source »

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