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...have two options: you can be married or you can engage in crazy carnal hookups void of anything emotional,” Chen said to explain her differences with...

Author: By Maeve T. Wang, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Abstinence Activist, Blogger Clash on Sex | 10/26/2007 | See Source »

That could help explain why more landlubbers are picking up oars. Participation in the U.S. has doubled to nearly 8 million people over the past decade, according to the National Sporting Goods Association, and women enthusiasts are among kayaking's fastest-growing groups. "I love the quietness of it," says Linda Weinmann, 36, of Winona, Minn. "It makes you feel like you are a part of your surroundings." Smarter lightweight designs are making kayaks easier to carry and maneuver. Meanwhile, the free lessons that kayaking outfitters offer along urban waterfronts in places like Baltimore and New York City, man-made...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Floating Your Own Boat | 10/25/2007 | See Source »

...have trumped race, one of Louisiana politics' most powerful emotional motivators. Jindal, a man who speaks in veritable sheets of words, has few campaign-worthy slogans. Yet at his victory party, where attention was split between his speech and the LSU-Auburn game, Jindal used a memorable one to explain his victory: "Who you know is not more important than what you know." Bobby Jindal knows a lot. Seriously. Just take a look at any of his 12-point plans...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Profile: Bobby Jindal | 10/25/2007 | See Source »

Bloch was one of about 80 players who attended the first ever "DC Fly In," sponsored by the Poker Players Alliance, which boasts 800,000 members, has former New York Senator Al D'Amato as its chairman and distributes papers and articles that explain in some detail why "poker is good for you." This year alone the Alliance has anted up nearly half a million dollars in campaign contributions. Most of the players who came to town want Congress to license and regulate companies that host poker games online--a move, they note, that would actually raise money...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A High-Stakes Table | 10/25/2007 | See Source »

...argues that, although secular thinking subdues religion, “grotesque” alterations to religion reappear to influence humanity. Gray praises the peaceful coexistence of “polytheism” and “mystical philosophies” in China and Japan, which he claims help explain why Darwinism failed to ignite a religious clash there. But despite his strident diagnosis of this supposedly universal ill, Gray fails to prescribe a cure. He terms his response to utopia “realism,” which he defines as the recognition that history is full of spontaneity...

Author: By Kevin C. Ni, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Gray’s Anti-Utopian Screed | 10/25/2007 | See Source »

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