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...exotic delights they thought. Burmese pythons can grow as long as 20 ft. (6 m) and weigh 250 lb. (113 kg). As they grow larger, they require more-spacious homes and bigger, more-expensive animals to eat, like rats and rabbits. They also get more difficult and unpleasant to clean up after. And as last week's tragedy drove home, they can be quite dangerous...
...TIME caught up to her there. It was salmon season, and thick fillets, red from the smokehouse, were drying on a line strung from a nearby tree. Husband Todd Palin was chopping wood and feeding it into a homemade sauna, the kind that native fishermen - like him - sweat themselves clean in after a day on Bristol Bay. He likes it hot - 190°F to 200°F (about 90°C to 95°C) - but that's too much for Sarah. Daughter Piper hovered over her baby brother Trig, who shares a name with one of the volcanoes...
...state as a means of allowing him to focus more on policy than politics. His vice presidential pick of Boediono, a former central banker with no political affiliations, was another sign of how he resisted political pressures from coalition partners and chose a running mate known as capable and clean. "When he chose Boediono, that was the moment of truth," offers Wimar Witoelar, a former presidential spokesman. "I hope he has the courage not to be pressured by politicians. If it works he will have conquered his fear of politics...
...once my bedroom floor was swept clean of his presence, I began to wonder if I had thought it out all wrong. Perhaps people can be strong in the broken places, as Hemingway once intimated. Most importantly, perhaps we are only broken because we care for others—and maybe that makes the grief worth it. His was a life of sacrifice, one where you break because there is someone worth hurting for. And maybe this brokenness is exactly what makes my grandfather one of the few people I wholly admire...
...carbon emitter, will be responsible for the majority of future emissions, so any global treaty that completely exempted them would be worthless. That debate - or standoff, really - has all but paralyzed global climate-change negotiations over the past several years. (See pictures of Beijing's attempt to clean...