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...portrait of the President ... and for a moment we hear the first six notes of the whistled theme that cued '90s TV watchers to the weekly spookiness of The X Files. Hmmm. Could George W. Bush be an alien - or an alien abductee? A yes to either question would explain so much...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: X Files Movie: For X-Philes Only | 7/24/2008 | See Source »

...asked to give money for something or hold hands across America, but instead it turned into a weird kind of show-and-tell. A few people gave long presentations, but everyone was given one-minute slots to talk about projects they're working on. Watching liberals try to explain something in one minute might be the best game show I've ever seen. I asked Wyatt Closs, from the Service Employees International Union - who, to my shock, had flown in from Washington just to make a presentation - what purpose this could possibly serve. He said a previous one-minute speech...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Activism, Hollywood-Style | 7/23/2008 | See Source »

...familiar repertoire of factors: exercise, smoking, diet, weight, genes. But our bodies' circadian rhythms also play a role, leaving us more prone to injury during certain hours than others. If you're guessing that the danger zone comes at the end of a stressful workday, guess again. Here to explain is Roberto Manfredini, professor of internal medicine at the University of Ferrara in Italy...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: When Are You Most Likely to Have a Heart Attack? | 7/22/2008 | See Source »

...judge deems that evidence relevant and reliable. The rules also permit hearsay evidence. The judge said he would not bar statements Hamdan made after arriving at Guantánamo, where the trial's opening arguments took place Tuesday. But he insisted that prosecutors present the interrogators involved to explain the conditions under which Hamdan made those statements...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Judge Limits Hamdan Prosecution | 7/22/2008 | See Source »

...with great regret that I noted the passing of Theodore H. White (MILESTONES, May 26). However, White made his mark not in Asia but in America. China has always been too complicated and controversial for anyone to make a lasting reputation by trying to explain it. In his coverage of American politics, White had few if any peers. William R. Brown Pittsburgh In the autumn of 1982 there was a seminar of old China hands on ''War Reporting: China in the 1940s.'' Teddy White was unable to attend and in a letter of regret wrote, ''We were all young...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: REMEMBRANCES OF WHITE | 7/21/2008 | See Source »

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