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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...parenting; I suspect the less possessive we are, the less obsessive we'll be. I write this as one who always knew that my husband would be the better parent of the two of us, able to slide, with joy and mischief, into our children's world rather than drag them prematurely into ours. On this Father's Day, the nicest thing anyone could say to me? That I've been a good...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Parenting Advice: What Moms Should Learn From Dads | 6/29/2009 | See Source »

...turns out there are a lot of Dolly Parton impersonators. Have you gone to see any of them? Oh, yes. I've seen tons of them. Many times, with different friends. Of course, there are a lot of drag queen Dollys too. I have a huge gay following, which I get a kick out of. Some of these guys look just like me except they're about 6 ft. 2 in. And with the high heels on, they're even taller. I get a kick out of that because I'm not very big. I'm a little old bitty...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Dolly Parton | 6/22/2009 | See Source »

...proven, and they are notoriously hard to predict. At mainland China's first gay-pride festival in Shanghai last week, officials shut down two film screenings and a performance of The Laramie Project, an American play about the murder of a gay college student. The "hot body" competition and drag shows, meanwhile, proceeded as planned. In May, plans to build China's first sex theme park were nixed after pictures of the venue's thong-clad, leg-shaped gate caught the attention of the press, though the city of Tongli, outside Shanghai, has its own sex museum displaying centuries...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: In China, V Is for The Vagina Monologues | 6/22/2009 | See Source »

...difference between girl toads and boy toads, so males will routinely embrace other males, although the subordinate ones are equipped with a call that quickly results in the dominant male releasing. In other species, the "straight" males get tricked by other wily straight males who dress in animal drag: male goodeid fish, for instance, sometimes have a black spot that resembles a spot that females get when pregnant. Dominant males then court them rather than fight with them. While the dominant guys are busy courting the subordinate, ladylike fish, the latter are able to "sneak copulations with females," as Bailey...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Why Some Animals (and People) Are Gay | 6/19/2009 | See Source »

...markets," state treasurer Bill Lockyer wrote U.S. Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner on May 13. Yet experts say such action by the Federal Government, while not a bailout, could possibly endanger the nation's AAA credit rating. Without short-term assistance, California could plunge deeper into chaos and become a drag on the nation's economic recovery. (The Page: "California Budget Deadlock Broken...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Can the U.S. Afford to Let California Fail? | 6/19/2009 | See Source »

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