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...results taught to every one of our youngsters. That is the only way we will eventually create a better world. Michel Mortier Zug, Switzerland U.S. foreign policy needs a greater dose of realism. It should be more in tune with the world community rather than taking an armchair view and telling other nations to conform to the U.S. perspective. Nirmal Kuamar Mishra Patna, India Words Unspoken In "What Bush should have said" [Sept. 11], columnist Joe Klein suggested that the U.S. order the Iraqi Prime Minister to disband his coalition because of the influence of Muqtada al-Sadr...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: 9/11: Looking Forward and Back | 9/26/2006 | See Source »

...ready for some football? The NFL season kicks off this week. But if the on-field action isn't enough for you, there's a plethora of new pigskin-themed movies, television shows, books and even a board game for armchair quarterbacks of all ages. Pads and helmets not required...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Piling On | 9/3/2006 | See Source »

Today at least half a dozen companies will, for about $200 a pop, take your spittle, analyze the heck out of it and tell you who and what you are. The tests are popular among adoptees, armchair genealogists and high school seniors praying that a link to some underrepresented ethnic group will help get them into the Ivies. Already a card-carrying minority, I thought a test might help me figure out a thing or two about my forebears --and my mixed-up identity...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Diving into the Gene Pool | 8/20/2006 | See Source »

...sofa by Philippe Starck for Kartell The exuberant Starck made a splash with his polypropylene parody of the archetypal sofa in 2000, and it's now a chic poolside classic. Inset grooves for water drainage mean it's perfect for the life aquatic. The range is augmented by an armchair and occasional table, so you could set up your family room outdoors. www.kartell.it...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Inside-out Living | 8/8/2006 | See Source »

...past 50 years have been “lived” on Plympton Street: first as a neophyte bookseller, then as an actual one. My introduction to the shop came in 1956. The shop, with its worn couch, its even more battered armchair, its dark-grained bookshelves, and a table piled high with books, was the perfect fantasy bookshop. Friends, acquaintances, whatever literary light was in town would drop by to visit the shop and to meet the owner Gordon Cairnie. He was purported to have hosted the first painting exhibition of e.e. cummings, to have stocked copies...

Author: By Louisa Solano | Title: Plympton Street | 6/6/2006 | See Source »

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