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...illegal business dealings?has suffered frostbite while in solitary confinement where he has spent much of the winter sleeping on the bare cement of his sub-freezing cell. Guards denied her request to bring him a blanket. "I was so angry but felt so powerless," says Liu, a ticket seller in a Beijing park for the past 20 years. In their letter the two invited i.o.c. members to meet them personally for "a true and complete inspection of the city...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Dissent by Association | 3/12/2001 | See Source »

...part of the experimental group, or you are part of the control, and the control group is dead. Thus, with an infinite gain associated with a successful experiment, I must believe that the 20 dollars a month utility loss that I will suffer is just buying me a ticket in the highest-stakes lottery on the planet: a chance to see the heat-death of the universe...

Author: By B.j. Greenleaf, | Title: Hooked on Cryonics | 3/6/2001 | See Source »

...only real change to the theater will be its transfer to non-profit status which he hopes will free the theater from strict reliance on ticket sales...

Author: By Nicole B. Usher, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Brattle Theatre Changes Hands | 3/5/2001 | See Source »

Maintaining the seating capacity is important for ticket revenues, and Illingworth speculates that building a balcony level may be a solution...

Author: By Daniela J. Lamas, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Pudding Fix-up Lags, Show Goes On | 3/5/2001 | See Source »

Michael O'Neill, a New York City marketing manager, had no preconceived notions about Edward but experienced what he is convinced was a "hot reading"--a variation on the cold reading in which the medium takes advantage of information surreptitiously gathered in advance. Given an extra ticket by family members hoping to hear from his deceased grandfather, O'Neill attended a performance and was singled out by Edward, who received what he claimed were communications sent directly from the dead grandfather...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Talking To The Dead | 3/5/2001 | See Source »

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