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...nothing but murky "shakes" of volcanic clay, psyllium husk and watermelon juice?all the while undergoing daily coffee colonics. In Nepal or Mongolia?places with little culinary cachet?fasting might make sense. But in the kingdom of miang khum and larb gai, skipping a dinner of piquant red-curry snapper in favor of clay is just cruel...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Clean, Sober and Suffering | 1/6/2003 | See Source »

...Brooklyn Tabernacle; she didn't want to be baptized while she was still a fornicator.) Gail and Lauren say Genelle allowed herself to be pushed around by the media planners of the wedding, which was largely denuded of Trinidadian culture. There was a jazz trumpeter instead of calypso, grilled snapper instead of curries and a whole army of p.r. people to flack all the donated wares. "That was just an example of how people are using her, using her story," says Gail. "And sometimes she lets it happen...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Survivor: A Miracle's Cost | 9/9/2002 | See Source »

...books--Kaufman's scripts are like the products of chaos theory. His first movie, Being John Malkovich, stunned even jaded moviegoers with its tale of a puppeteer who discovers a portal into the mind of actor John Malkovich. His next offering, Human Nature, in cinemas now, is another head snapper. Patricia Arquette plays Lila, an abnormally hirsute woman who falls in love with a light-in-the-shorts behavioral scientist, Nathan Bronfman (Tim Robbins). Bronfman is trying, with some success, to teach mice to eat with the correct salad fork (yes, really). When the lovers while hiking one day find...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Hollywood's New Flavor | 4/29/2002 | See Source »

...fact the tail end of the Arakan Yoma mountain range. The submerged peaks cover a 1,000-km arc from Burma to Sumatra, surrounded on all sides by deep ocean. Divers and snorkelers can swim with all the usual reef crowd?butterfly fish, blue napoleons, sea anemones, snapper and brightly colored parrot fish?and also encounter larger visitors from deeper waters, like blue and sperm whales, dolphins, sharks, tuna and marine turtles. The area is a favored haunt of the endangered dugong, a cousin of the manatee, that feeds in the sea grasses of the shallow coastal waters...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Detour: India | 3/18/2002 | See Source »

...George W. Bush accepting his honorary degree at Yale, I sensed a Dukakis moment. I understand that the overall effect of the speech, if you were there in New Haven, was not as embarrassing as the soundbites. I saw only the television clips, and they were painful - the towel-snapper's smirk, the jokes about how if you are a C student you may get to be president, and if you drop out (as Dick Cheney did) you get to be vice president, and about not being able to remember everything that happened to him at Yale. The effect...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: On Jeffords, Dubya Does a Dukakis | 5/24/2001 | See Source »

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