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...August 20th—In keeping with his injury plagued season, San Francisco Giant Jeff Kent breaks his ankle while washing his son’s bicycle—yeah right...
Elizabeth, the Queen Mum, never ceased to think of herself as a country lass from Scotland. She spent each August at the Castle of Mey, listening to her bagpipe records and fishing for salmon with Prince Charles. Sometimes she would simply tramp through the rain, chatting with the locals. Once, it is said, she noticed a farmhand struggling to herd his lambs into a pen. Instantly she clambered over a stone wall to help out. It seemed, she later said, the neighborly thing...
...TIME reporter Mitch Frank has written the forthcoming "Understanding September 11th: Answering Questions About the Attacks on America" (Viking Children's Books; August 5; hardcover and paperback), for young people ages 12 and up. According to his publisher, the book will be "written on a level that sixth graders and up can easily comprehend and filled with pictures, maps, and straightforward explanations. This is the book that will enable young people to understand both the events of 9/11 and the history leading...
Avid readers of TIME.com's Person of the Week feature will find this week's subject familiar. On August 30, nearly seven months ago, we wondered whether the American Consumer - enriched by mortgage refinancing but jarred by layoff announcements - would spend enough to keep the weakest U.S. economy in a decade from slipping into recession...
...SUPERFLY AND APPLE PIE In August, HarperEntertainment will publish "Pimpnosis" by Tracy Funches and Rob Marriott. Says the publisher, "In the deepest recesses of our imagination lies a fascination with the dark side. Most of us, at one time or another, have wondered what a life lived outside the law might be like. Often, it has been the figure of the pimp - the image, the persona, but not always the reality - upon which we project these fantasies. The pimp mentality and approach to life is (an) all too frightening reflection of our intensely materialistic, highly sexed, hyper-capitalist society. Sometimes...