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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...writing? -Roderick Yang, SeattleMy deepest passion was reading. At some point-not early, I was 35 or 36-I realized there was a book that I wanted very much to read that really hadn't been written, and so I sort of played around with it in trying to construct the kind of book I wanted to read...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: 10 Questions for Toni Morrison | 5/7/2008 | See Source »

...luxury one Hand-crafted in frost-resistant clay by British company Green & Blue, Birdball derives its shape from the spherical forms that blue tits and coal tits prefer to construct when left to make nests on their own. At about $60, this chic number doesn't come cheap, but some experts reckon there's no better answer to the nesting urge. www.birdball.co.uk...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Birdhouses: The Tweet Life | 5/7/2008 | See Source »

...General Motors, signed a letter declaring that “it is vitally important that the publicly funded health care system be preserved and renewed” in Canada. Because of the effective, socialistic health care system in place, a multinational corporation—Toyota—opted to construct a new plant in Ontario in 2005 despite being wooed by several southern U.S. states with hundreds of millions of dollars in subsidies...

Author: By Brian S. Chen | Title: Please, Don’t Mention Us | 5/5/2008 | See Source »

...stories in “Terminus” that are begun but never completed, as well as narrative threads that are left unexplained. This not only adds to the sense that there is too much for the camera to capture; it also gives the viewer the opportunity to construct his or her own interpretation of the film’s meaning. In one scene, the character Malcolm has a photograph in his bathroom of another character’s artwork, though the two have never...

Author: By Ama R. Francis, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: 'Terminus' Explores Limits of Narrative | 4/25/2008 | See Source »

Genetic testing could be completed in as little as a few days, according to Howard Coleman, CEO of Genelex, a Seattle-based commercial genetics lab, which is not involved with the Texas case. It could take several weeks longer, however, to construct a family tree from the results. Once they are traced, however, the children's origins may offer a fascinating look at the family structure of the secretive polygamist sect, as well as insight into the emergence of a tragic birth defect that has plagued the community...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Tracing the Polygamists' Family Tree | 4/20/2008 | See Source »

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