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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...landed in the new one and found themselves on a fat, juicy center cut of continent, big enough to baste its coasts in two different oceans. The prairies ran so dark with buffalo, you could practically net them like cod; the waters swam so thick with cod, you could bag them like slow-moving buffalo. The soil was the kind of rich stuff in which you could bury a brick and grow a house, and the pioneers grew plenty - fruits and vegetables and grains and gourds and legumes and tubers, in a variety and abundance they'd never seen before...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: How America's Children Packed On the Pounds | 6/12/2008 | See Source »

...such trip, 14 years ago, the trainer saw an adolescent Samuel Peter hitting a homemade punching bag at a local school. "I could see he had talent," Young says. "But he also was very hard-working. He said, 'Coach, I want to be a champion.' He would come to my house and talk about nothing but boxing." Peter soon became his most diligent, and eventually most successful, prot...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Punching Their Way Out of Poverty? | 6/6/2008 | See Source »

...fiancé got engaged to Scarlett Johansson is, naturally, confessional ("I miss ... the thought of us bringing up our kids"). It takes a hard heart not to be moved by Morissette alone at her piano--but a strong ear to love producer Guy Sigsworth's New Agey indulgences. A mixed bag if ever there...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: 5 Things You Should Know About | 6/5/2008 | See Source »

...Baur came up with a clever way for Procter & Gamble to stack chips uniformly rather than tossing them in a bag. He was so proud of the achievement, he wanted to go to his grave with it. So when Baur died last month, his children buried the 89-year-old's ashes in one of his iconic cans...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Man Buried in a Pringles Can | 6/4/2008 | See Source »

...Madick the loss—in the ninth.Perhaps no one but Madick will ever know how much the leg bruise affected her in the latter stages of that NCAA game. Only a few people witnessed the pitcher limp into the post-game press conference with a big bag of ice strapped to her leg and no excuses. She credited Hofstra’s sluggers and blamed herself for missing pitches. Then she limped off.She came back the next day to hurl seven innings of one-run ball as the Crimson was eliminated from the playoffs in a 1-0 loss...

Author: By Jonathan Lehman, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: One Final Edit: To Take the ‘I’ Out of Article | 6/3/2008 | See Source »

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