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...with her boyfriend Oscar, and had put her own apartment on the market. The two spent their weekends hanging out with friends in Vigo's lively waterfront cafés and were planning to travel this summer. It wasn't a bad life for the 23-year-old daughter of a longshoreman and a housewife...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Broken Hopes of a Spanish Generation | 7/20/2009 | See Source »

...retrospection and rushed to download "Thriller" as their ringtone and call up his videos on YouTube. They had their representatives as well, in the form of the Jackson children we had seldom seen before. His own childhood melted by fame, Michael tried obsessively to keep his sons and daughter from being burned by its glare. They didn't go to school; they appeared in public masked and veiled. And so it was almost a shock to see them, with the TV camera behaving cautiously at first, sweeping over them discreetly as they sat with their aunts and uncles and grandparents...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Moment | 7/20/2009 | See Source »

...while he was babysitting his granddaughter - he had a daughter from his first marriage - that he had the idea of writing like a child: detached, simple, in the present tense. "I had this extraordinary illumination, or epiphany," he said. "Children are almost deadly in their detachment from the world ... They are absolutely pragmatic, and they tell the truth, and somehow that lodged in my subconscious when I started writing the book...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Frank McCourt, Author of Angela's Ashes, Dies | 7/19/2009 | See Source »

Trump, Donald • alleged delight of at engagement of daughter of to son of another distasteful real estate tycoon • lawsuit of against author who claimed actual worth of is a fraction of the billions endlessly and nauseatingly boasted about by is thrown out of court • reference to in new book by Kurt Andersen as "a clownish reality-show artifact" is not appreciated...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: This Preposterous Week! Paul Slansky's News Index | 7/17/2009 | See Source »

...finger. "I whacked my hand really, really hard," he says, "and while it was throbbing, I swore a bit." Being a psychologist, of course that got him thinking, Why did I react in that way? Later, he witnessed his wife do the same thing while giving birth to their daughter - at moments of intense pain, she would holler expletives. "She immediately apologized," he remembers, "but [the medical staff] said, 'Don't apologize! We get this all the time.' " (See the top 10 medical breakthroughs...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Bleep! My Finger! Why Swearing Helps Ease Pain | 7/16/2009 | See Source »

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