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"We're cramped in a relatively small room, screaming for hours and hours." Dragon Ball Z is one of the single most beloved anime properties in America. After getting a slow start in syndication back in 1996, the series — starring kind-hearted warrior Son Goku — exploded into the mainstream after…

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Location Mission Type Raid Ultras The Templar Gorgons Atheon, Time's Conflux Difficulties Level 26 Level 30 Template: [Source] [Talk] Beneath Venus, evil stirs. ― In-game description Vault of Glass is a raid located in Ishtar Sink , Venus . It first became available on September 16, 2014. Contents…

The Last Answer by Isaac Asimov — © 1980 Murray Templeton was forty-five years old, in the prime of life, and with all parts of his body in perfect working order except for certain key portions of his coronary arteries, but that was enough. The pain had come suddenly, had mounted to an unbearable…

The Last Question by Isaac Asimov — © 1956 The last question was asked for the first time, half in jest, on May 21, 2061, at a time when humanity first stepped into the light. The question came about as a result of a five dollar bet over highballs, and it happened this way: Alexander Adell and…

Credit Illustration by Christian Gralingen One looked like a woman but was too tall, or maybe it was just that the other one was so small, like a little boy. I saw them around Portland all the time that summer. Were they young or old? Couldn’t tell. Were they from the present, or another era; i.e.,…

Credit Illustration by Javier Jaén He woke to discover that he had undergone a metamorphosis and become Gregor Samsa. He lay flat on his back on the bed, looking at the ceiling. It took time for his eyes to adjust to the lack of light. The ceiling seemed to be a common, everyday ceiling of the sort…

David Ferguson I have always been a big proponent of following your heart and doing exactly what you want to do. It sounds so simple, right? But there are people who spend years—decades, even—trying to find a true sense of purpose for themselves. My advice? Just find the thing you enjoy doing more…

In today’s fast-paced world, it seems like just about any guy can accidentally kill his girlfriend at virtually any time. Here are some easy strategies to avoid inadvertently murdering your significant other : Be sure to avoid firing a gun in the general direction of your girlfriend, regardless of…

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'Was it the drink was his ruin," asked Hugh Kenner of Flann O'Brien in "A Colder Eye: The Modern Irish Writers," "or was it the column? For ruin is the word. So much promise has seldom accomplished so little." By the end of O'Brien's life, "a great future lay behind him." O'Brien was, in Denis…

Translated from the Urdu by Aatish Taseer F or some time now, the two sides had been entrenched in their positions on the front. Over the course of a day, the sound of fire could be heard, some ten or twelve times from either side, but no human cry ever accompanied its report. The weather was…

Illustration: Paul Newman Source: Supplied I am a Japanese Writer By Dany Laferriere Douglas & McIntyre, 160pp, $US22.95 African Psycho By Alain Mabanckou Serpent's Tail, 176pp, $23.99 IN 2006, when five of France's seven main literary prizes went to writers who were not French-born, a crisis in…

Con su cara de labriego apacible y manso, se ufanaba en decir que no inventaba nada, que sólo miraba las cosas por detrás de lo que ya existía, bajó un ratito al río a dialogar con las ranas, las quietas hojas de los árboles y el más primario y frágil de los espantos. CENTAURO y DESQUITE, dos textos…

Credit Photograph by Terje Sorgjerd / Getty We’ll still be friends, she said. —Grand, he answered, and then he was walking down a street by himself, before he fully understood what had happened. He knew the street, although not very well. He wasn’t sure why he was there, why they’d gone over to this…

Credit Photograph by Ian Tyas / Keystone / Getty It surprised no one to learn that Michael Beard had been an only child, and he would have been the first to concede that he’d never quite got the hang of brotherly feeling. His mother, Angela, was an angular beauty who doted on him, and the medium of…

Credit Illustration by Yvetta Fedorova Once when I was a little boy I received as a gift a toy cement mixer. It was made of wood except for its wheels—axles—which, as I remember, were thin metal rods. I’m ninety per cent sure it was a Christmas gift. I liked it the same way a boy that age likes toy…

Credit Photographs by (left to right): Detail, Paul Seawright, “Bird, Night Shelter” (1996); Bill Ray / Time & Life / Getty The series of events and coincidences that would change my entire life began on April 27, 1975, when Sibel happened to spot a purse designed by the famous Jenny Colon in a…