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...Australian government said it would resume processing their claims for asylum. The move came after three Afghans at the Woomera detention center, in the South Australian desert, attempted suicide. About 200 migrants have been on a hunger strike at the facility, where more than 40 had their lips sewn shut. Reviews of the Afghans' claims were frozen in November, pending evaluation of the post-Taliban situation in their homeland...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World Watch | 2/4/2001 | See Source »

Most national polls give Bush a 3 to a 4 percentage point popular vote lead, but neither candidate has sewn up the 270 electoral college votes needed for victory...

Author: By Edward B. Colby, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Swing States, Turnout, Will Decide Election Outcome | 11/6/2000 | See Source »

...first: the entire New Testament is already online in MP3 format at www.audiotreasure.com C'EST CHIC, LE GEEK Strange bedfellows Levi Strauss & Co. and Philips Electronics have teamed up to produce a line of high-tech, high-fashion clothes that come with electronic devices sewn right into them. The new threads, which Levi's has dubbed ICD+, were created by Massimo Osti, and will debut next month in Europe. So far the line consists of four jackets, one of which features a built-in MP3 player, cell phone and microphone. Levi's says it has no plans to launch...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: In Brief: Aug. 28, 2000 | 8/28/2000 | See Source »

...deficit for Al Gore among among men. The poll shows Bush with 57 percent of the male vote, and Gore with only 32 percent. Among women, Bush gets 48 percent and Gore 44 percent. Specifically, Gore's biggest problem is white men. He has the black vote pretty much sewn...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Among White Men, Gore Needs to Pick Up Good Vibrations | 8/14/2000 | See Source »

Kalbfleish watches the shooting from a small hill while registering members and handing out club literature. The V.H.A.'s logo, printed on window stickers and patches sewn onto hunter's shirts and caps, shows a prairie dog encircled by the motto "Courtesy. Camaraderie. Conservation." To Kalbfleish, varminting means all of these, but mostly it's about "accuracy." And fun. "Is there any nobility to it? No," he says. "But I don't see any nobility to the other side either, which is, Don't shoot them. My position is, You go do what you want to do, and that...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Reducing Varmints to Mist | 8/7/2000 | See Source »

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