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Europe-bashing is nothing new
Frontier Post
Recently Time magazine added to the Europe-bashing tradition with a cover story that blared The Decline and Fall of Europe, featuring a young London rioter.The US media has a long history of having fun at Europe's expense. Recently Time magazine added ...
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Six Unusual Things I Learned From Hula Hooping
Huffington Post (blog)
Spending time with kids? But they were my kids and I loved them and I wanted them to love me back. I also didn't want their lives to be in too much shock over the separation of their parents. Time Magazine does its annual cover story on "Divorce Ruins ...
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Nutritionism fads? I just find them hard to swallow
Irish Times
Which is why my eye was drawn to the shiny front cover of the current edition of Time magazinewhich promises to “Uncover the myths about food”. Said article is very well researched and very well written but the money quote in the last paragraph comes ...
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Roeper: Irony comforts in aftermath of 9/11
Chicago Sun-Times
Under the headline “The Age of Irony Comes to an End,” Time magazine ran an essay in which Roger Rosenblatt stated, “One good thing could come from this horror: It could spell the end of the age of irony. For some 30 years — roughly as long as the ...
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Is There Any Way Out of This Housing Mess?
Builder Magazine (blog)
Time magazine's cover story on how to potentially fix the housing market made good beach reading last week. The main proposal, to knock down a bunch of homes in Cleveland and Detroit, shows just how intractable the housing crisis is. ...
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Rick Perry backed Al Gore, didn't lead his Texas campaign
PolitiFact
Of late, there's a July 16, 2011, reference to Perry chairing the Gore effort in Time magazine, and an Aug. 29, 2011, item in The New Yorker magazine saying Perry "became a Republican after shouldering the thankless task of running Al Gore's 1988 ...
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Fuzzy Kittens, Fuzzier Science
Columbia Journalism Review (blog)
The site boasts a bevy of media links, including a Time magazine cover bearing the headline “GOD vs. SCIENCE,” which leads to a blurb listing the cats among Time's picks for “Best Inventions of 2006.” “Demand is high,” the blurb says. ...
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"Ugly Betty" star America Ferrera to speak in Rochester Sept. 15
Fairport-E.Rochester Post
By Staff reports Actress America Ferrera, one of Time Magazine's “Most Influential People in the World" and star of ABC's "Ugly Betty" will be the guest speaker at Girl Scouts of Western New York's Women of Distinction Awards presentation to honor nine ...
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The liberal agony
The Christian Century
Shortly after the election of Barack Obama to the presidency in 2008, the cover of Time magazinefeatured a fabrication of an iconic photograph of Franklin Roosevelt, cigarette holder at a rakish tilt, sitting at the wheel of a convertible. ...
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Political Wisdom: Will Washington Pick Up Where It Left Off in August?
Wall Street Journal (blog)
At Time Magazine's Swampland, Jay Newton-Small writes that Mr. Boehner will have to summon all the negotiating skills he can muster to secure Republicans' support for another continuing resolution to keep the government running. ...
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Previewing the 2011 NFL season
The Roar
“You can commence your fantasy football drafts now” gleefully declared TIME magazine in early August when it was announced that the lockout was finally over. As amusing as that quip might be, herein lies the essence of American football and what makes ...
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For Hollywood's Dream Factory, A Sober 'New Normal'
NPR
Time magazine wrote that the episode was "earnest in its tone, admirable in its charitable intent and God-awful in its condescending pedantry." For the time being, at least, reality would be much more compelling than fiction. In time, Hollywood began ...
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Hopkins, Baumbach Turning Jonathan Franzen's The Corrections Into HBO Show
Paste Magazine
When The Corrections was released in 2001, it received many awards, including the National Book Award, was named one of Time Magazine's 100 greatest novels since 1923 and became a selection for Oprah's Book Club.
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Poptropica Launches Mystery Train on Its Popular Virtual World for Kids
DigitalJournal.com (press release)
Recently named as one of TIME magazine's Top 50 websites of 2011, Poptropica is visited by as many as 10 million kids each month. Players come from more than 100 different countries and have their web browsers set to more than 70 different languages, ...
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Anna Hazare's "Class of 2011"
GroundReport
Bobby Ghosh writing in Time magazine reported that “all the revolts were led by young men and women, many of whom are novices at political activism. All use modern tools, like social networking sites on the internet and texting over mobile phones to ...
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Drought-fueled wildfires burn out of control in Texas
Washington Post (blog)
As a Time Magazine article details, we may soon start seeing its impacts at the grocery store, with escalating prices for beef products, among other ripple effects throughout the global economy. The drought, extreme heat, and wildfires are intertwined. ...
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DAR to honor Constitution
knox.VillageSoup.com
In honor of Constitution Week, which begins that day, Anne Maurais will present a program called “Rebutting Time Magazine's June 23 article 'One Document, under Siege,' by Walter E. Williams.” Area women are invited to attend. ...
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