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...skies over Brackendale, British Columbia. Ever since then, this small Canadian town has rejoiced in the[an error occurred while processing this directive] title of "bald-eagle capital of the world." Why Brackendale, you might ask? The answer is to be found in the annual spawning of chum salmon, which turns the nearby Squamish River into a floating buffet that North America's iconic raptors find irresistible. Spawning season runs from mid-November to mid-February, and the best way to get close to the eagles swooping in on their prey is to join an "eagle safari...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Early Birds | 9/28/2006 | See Source »

With Noah still in diapers, Andrea was pregnant again in 1995. She gave up swimming and jogging. She saw less of her friends. "That was her choice," says her friend Marlene Wark, who lost touch with her old chum after Noah's birth. "Andrea is not a cream puff. She never struck me as the type who rolled over." Wark had seen her friendship lapse with Andrea before. In college they stopped talking for a year until Andrea warmed up again, without ever explaining what had miffed her. Andrea later told another friend that, at the time, she might have...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Yates Odyssey | 7/26/2006 | See Source »

Spliced between the chum are a few fishhooks—bits of existentialist description, a few interesting characters abandoned like sparks, and intensely philosophical fragments left to fend for themselves...

Author: By Casey N. Cep, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: A Lawyer Helps Friend, Saves Day­—Again | 2/15/2006 | See Source »

AUTHOR Former Bill Clinton pollster and chum Dick Morris...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Getting All Huffy Over the Hill | 10/9/2005 | See Source »

...over religion. Before they can have a child, however, their village gets a visitor: the American ambassador to India. Since this is a Rushdie book, he isn't just a diplomat; he's also the scion of a cultured Ashkenazi family, a hero of the French Resistance and a chum of Marlon Brando's. This is the kind of preposterous, over-laden detail that bends and almost cracks the novel at various points. Yet the plot somehow works. The ambassador falls for Boonyi, she betrays Shalimar, and the two elope to Delhi. Shalimar goes mad with jealousy, and vows...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Fable of Fury | 8/29/2005 | See Source »

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