‘Everyone Needs Someone Else’
WHY Americans OF ALL AGES are coming together in ‘intentional communities’
By Jeffrey Kluger
There’s not a lot to do in Syracuse, N.Y. when you’re living alone and a winter storm system dumps 3 feet of snow on the city. There’s no going outside, but there’s no staying inside — at least not for too long — if you want to remain sane. A dinner with friends would be nice; so would a yoga class or a shared movie and a good long talk.
Channing Tatum’s stripper Magic Mike pulls on bookcases and beams in the Miami home of a wealthy woman played by Salma Hayek Pinault. Hayek Pinault’s character looks confused, but if you’ve seen a Magic Mike movie, you know Mike is testing whether the furniture will hold up to his swinging and gyrating. Tatum has a particular talent for swiveling and thrusting in dances steamier than most sex scenes. In Magic Mike’s Last Dance, out Feb.
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TIME
December 11, 1944 12:00 AM GMT-4
More Allied supplies were flowing into Burma last week than ever before—more than twice as much as a year ago. Result: the Japanese were in retreat. A local success could not dispel the gloom over China’s plight (see above), but it did demonstrate that when U.S.-trained Chinese troops got the tools, they knew how to do the job. Lieut. General Daniel I. Sultan’s forces made a 40-mile advance below surrounded Bhamo, threatened to cut in behind Jap troops retreating from the Salween and had a chance to clear the whole blocked sector of the Burma Road.
Historical Context The 19th century in America was full of conflicts between the emerging federal government and the Native Americans who had occupied the land before the arrival of European settlers. One such group of Natives was the Lakota, who the US government had steadily been seizing land from prior to the events at Wounded Knee.
An attempt had been made to arrest the famous Lakota Sioux chief Sitting Bull, but he was killed in the attempt.