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...Booty Vortex No really, Booty Vortex. The band that is. Get your funk on with this retro disco band, whose members include Bootay Crevace, Aloisius, and Discomoto. $10 Saturday, Feb. 24, 9:45 p.m. Johnny D’s 17 Holland St., Somerville...

Author: By FM Staff | Title: Get Out! | 2/21/2007 | See Source »

Locals describe Asheville as "half Christian, half New Age," a town where Baptists preach about Jesus' saving grace while mystics talk about the vortex entrance panels tucked in the mountains. There are a great many churches and Presbyterian summer camps here in Billy Graham's backyard, but there is also a lively population of retirees and artists and entrepreneurs opening craft shops and microbreweries. It thinks of itself as a tolerant town--to the point that the only facility in all of western North Carolina that publicly offers abortions is the city's Femcare clinic. It has a fence around...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Grass-Roots Abortion War | 2/15/2007 | See Source »

After completing his story about e-recruiting at Harvard, Max mentioned that he almost got sucked into the business-career vortex. But he also got a compliment from an editor at the Financial Times that his story was one that he would’ve run in his own newspaper. Stick with journalism...

Author: By FM Staff | Title: Oh Ye, Behold the 1-3-4! | 12/13/2006 | See Source »

...teenage daughter. Perhaps most fitting is the word"free" - her mind is fast, strong and unfettered. She has a heart for the suffering and she can do the science - but I'm scared of leading her into my world, pushing her even just a little, into the devouring vortex of medicine. And I know why. It's because she's so free...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Like Father, Like Daughter? Not if I Can Help It | 10/27/2006 | See Source »

...coltan and used in electronic devices such as cell phones and laptop computers) and uranium. The waters of its mighty river could one day power the continent. Yet because Congo is so rich in resources, its problems, when left to fester, tend to suck its neighbors into a vortex of exploitation and chaos. And so fixing Congo is essential to fixing Africa. Says Anneke Van Woudenberg, a senior researcher for Human Rights Watch: "If you want peace in Africa, then you need to deal with the biggest country right at its heart...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Deadliest War In The World | 5/28/2006 | See Source »

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