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...HAVE A HOUSE in Formentera, and we try to go as often as we can. Apart from the charming natural environment and the crystal-clear sea, beautiful memories of precious moments with my family tie me to that place. Our house is in the countryside, and once we get there, it's like being on a desert island?we can enjoy all the tranquillity of the environment and relax. And when we feel like it, we can go to the tiny bars on the beach or do a little shopping at the market of Sant Francesc (I always find interesting...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Formentera | 9/11/2006 | See Source »

...college president, by tackling 50 questions on such subjects as Shakespeare, baseball, chemistry, art, medicine, explorers and the American Revolution. Over the weeks, while groaning, muttering and mugging, he has managed a staggering variety of hard ones, e.g., identifying the main Balearic Islands (Majorca, Minorca, Iviza and Formentera); the only three baseball players who have amassed more than 3,500 hits (Ty Cobb, Cap Anson, Tris Speaker); the process of photosynthesis. On the six occasions when he has muffed questions, e.g., the identity of the Republican vice-presidential candidate who died before Election Day in 1912 (James S. Sherman...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: TV & Radio: The Wizard of Quiz | 2/11/1957 | See Source »

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