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...Complaint: Denine Erlemeier and her family woke up after their first night in the budget-priced hotel to find themselves covered with red bites. A little research online suggested the marks may have come from bedbugs, the reddish-brown, blood-sucking insects that often live in mattresses and bedding. (See 50 essential travel tips...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Family Vacation, Ruined by Bug Bites | 1/27/2010 | See Source »

...dozens of sharp spikes, all pointing inward. They were designed to perforate skin and flesh of anybody locked inside, but not deep enough to puncture any vital organs. That way, the torturers could inflict maximum pain on their victim without actually killing him. The spikes still bore the distinctive reddish-brown flakes of dried blood...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Why Is the IOC Punishing Iraq? | 7/25/2008 | See Source »

...have not kept him from becoming one of Spain's most promising young toreros. Two Sundays ago, he was again demonstrating the skills that have earned the 20-year-old a devoted following since his debut in March 2005. This time, he opted to meet his first opponent - a reddish-brown half-tonner - on his knees, thrilling the audience at Las Ventas, the world's most prestigious bullring, with his bravery. But courage isn't the only notable aspect of Savalli's career. He is, as one newspaper dubbed him, the first "Muslim Matador." And as he worked the bulls...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Talented Torero | 3/19/2006 | See Source »

Dubowski stands unassumingly as he talks, is blue kippah displayed prominently on his head and a think reddish-brown beard covering his face...

Author: By Jayme J. Herschkopf, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: ‘Trembling’ Director Confesses at HFA | 11/7/2003 | See Source »

...colored paste. He used them, in varying combinations and often in several layers, on coarse paper, parchment, newsprint, cotton, linen, gauze, burlap, cardboard, plaster and plywood. Ever the master colorist, he conjured up an eerie, otherworldly radiance, as in Masks at Twilight, by combining black, milky blue and muddy reddish-brown. The spellbinding A Gate shimmers with silvery moonlight, created with white and gray tempera washes on black-painted paper. Despite the gravity of his condition, Klee never lost his magical powers of enchantment or playful sense of humor. In Bacchanale With Red Wine, unsteady hieroglyphs seem woozily afloat...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Feats Of Klee | 8/24/2003 | See Source »

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