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...sort was exceedingly rare. Latinas are frequently described as "fiery" or "caliente" or "curvy" - but rarely "wise." A cursory Nexis search reveals only a single book review, from 2000, of a sci-fi tome called The Fresco, in which a heroine who communes with aliens is described as the daughter of "a wise Latina lady and her salvage-yard husband." Clearly a page turner. (See Sonya Sotomayor's judicial record...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Just What Is a 'Wise Latina,' Anyway? | 7/14/2009 | See Source »

...didn't feel a thing.' KASSIM BAKARI, on his 14-year-old daughter Bahia, the only passenger to survive the crash of a Yemeni airliner in the Indian Ocean; 152 others are presumed dead...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Verbatim | 7/13/2009 | See Source »

That love was first and foremost for Nicaragua's poor, out of whose ranks he'd risen. When a desperate father appealed for Arguello's help because he couldn't afford the expensive medical treatment to treat his 8-year-old daughter's leukemia, the fighter made the cause his own and tried to shame two Nicaraguan pharmaceutical companies into providing free treatment. When they hesitated, the champ came out swinging...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: How Politics Took Down Nicaragua's Boxing Champ | 7/13/2009 | See Source »

...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 on the far side of the water. Flat land, flat water, distant mountains. You can see for miles but not far enough to spot the nearest town. (See pictures of Sarah Palin...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Outsider: Where Is Sarah Palin Going Next? | 7/9/2009 | See Source »

...made the mistake that every time someone attacked her, she'd fight back," Coale says. And that instinct was especially strong when the attack involved family. In recent months she has been in an unseemly tussle with Levi Johnston, the hockey-playing former fiancé of her daughter Bristol. After a joke aimed at 18-year-old Bristol hit 14-year-old Willow instead, Palin demanded multiple apologies from comedian David Letterman. Even after Palin announced her resignation, she remained on high alert. Shannyn Moore, an Alaska blogger, questioned whether Palin quit because of rumors she was facing a scandal...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Outsider: Where Is Sarah Palin Going Next? | 7/9/2009 | See Source »

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