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...same amount of time, I can do a painting that will last forever?" Finally they fetch up in a tiny, tilting, unplumbed house in the Appalachians. "'It's good we raised you young 'uns to be tough,' Dad says. 'Because this is not a house for the faint of heart...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: The Parent Booby Trap | 2/27/2005 | See Source »

With the lights of the NBA All-Star festivities of this past weekend still radiating a faint glow, one great blinding truth became startlingly clear: Harvard desperately needs its own slam dunk contest...

Author: By J. PATRICK Coyne, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: COYNE TOSS: Bring Dunks Our Way | 2/24/2005 | See Source »

...star was discovered by chance, while the scientists were conducting a survey of faint blue stars along the outskirts of the Milky Way, which could provide clues as to whether the galaxy has merged with others in the past...

Author: By David Zhou, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Star May Have Escaped Galaxy | 2/15/2005 | See Source »

Neither Brunstad's work life nor his pre--Channel swimming retirement would have suited the lazy or faint of heart. In the Air Force, he flew B-52 bombers. The day he left the military, he began piloting for American Airlines, and upon his mandatory retirement at 60, he bought a Russian-designed, Chinese-built MiG-17 fighter, which he used to do tricks at air shows, zooming at speeds up to Mach 1.1 and pulling up to 9 Gs. ("Isn't that what every grandfather does?" Brunstad asks.) But his real passion all along was long-distance swimming, particularly...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Life Is But A Dream | 2/14/2005 | See Source »

...Bright Eyes project has peddled his singular brand of disingenuous melancholy all the way to the gatekeeper of the musical elite: Maxim’s Blender magazine. His Omaha-based label Saddle Creek have hosted a handful of similarly insipid alt-rockers, many of whom, like The Faint or Rilo Kiley, have recently met Mammon’s warm embrace. Adored by hordes of sobbing alterna-teens, Oberst has generated an elaborate cult of personality that often obscures the mediocrity of his music. Photographs of his skinny indie-bod and endearing bedhead hair frequently appear in the music press, which...

Author: By Ben F. Tarnoff, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: CD Review | 2/11/2005 | See Source »

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