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...Gordon Lisch, and we had one assignment which was to write your worst secret, the thing you would never live down, or as he put it: “the thing that dismantles the sense of your self.” And so, I was in my late 20s, almost 30 at the time, and I knew the worst secret was I felt I had failed my best friend when she was dying. So that’s why I wrote that story. It wasn’t something I wanted to think about, and I certainly didn?...

Author: By Jyotika Banga, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: 15 Questions with Amy Hempel | 10/22/2009 | See Source »

...austere Russian Kazimir Malevich were in their different ways achieving escape velocity on canvas. And so was Kandinsky, who would become the most tireless apostle of an art that answered to nothing in the merely material world. Born in 1866 to a prosperous Moscow family, Kandinsky spent his 20s studying law and economics, all the while bending toward another calling. He was the sort of young man who could be sent into ecstasies by a sunset. "The sun dissolves the whole of Moscow into a single spot," was how he described one years later, "which, like a wild tuba, sets...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Worlds Within | 10/19/2009 | See Source »

...August, Mehsud was killed in a U.S. Predator drone strike, leading to a vicious power struggle that elevated his deputy, Hakimullah Mehsud (thought to be in his late 20s) to power. The young man's promotion may explain the recent string of terrorist attacks in Pakistan, including an audacious assault on military headquarters as well as coordinated raids on three security installations in Lahore. "You now have a young, flamboyant and dynamic leader in charge, and he wants to prove himself," says Major General Mahmud Ali Durrani, who after retiring from the Pakistani army served as ambassador...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Pakistan: Behind the Waziristan Offensive | 10/18/2009 | See Source »

...late 20s or early 3os looked into a girl's shower at Stanford, and in a separate incident another man has been peeping into the first-floor dorm rooms of a dorm called Narnia...

Author: By Bonnie J. Kavoussi | Title: Around the Ivies | 10/16/2009 | See Source »

This finding would also appear to contradict the commonplace idea that autism rates have exploded in the two decades. Researchers found no significant differences in autism prevalence among people they surveyed in their 20s, 30s, 40s, right up through their 70s. "This suggests that the factors that lead to developing autism appear to be constant," said Dr. Terry Brugha, professor of psychiatry at the University of Leicester and lead author of the study. "I think what our survey suggests doesn't go with the idea that the prevalence is rising...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: For the First Time, a Census of Autistic Adults | 10/3/2009 | See Source »

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