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...that it took help from NASA scientists to shape her medium, a translucent substance called aerogel, into a likeness of a human heart. For the Shanghai-born artist, the absorbent material - used aboard NASA's Stardust probe to trap dust from comet tails - represented a new artistic frontier. Cajoling some from the space agency took years. "I had to show them I was serious," she says...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Mixed Media | 9/11/2008 | See Source »

...more point in her favor: In the topsy-turvy election of 2008, the Last Frontier is actually a battleground state - and Palin is Alaska's most popular politician...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Why McCain Picked Palin | 8/29/2008 | See Source »

Read "The iPhone's Next Frontier: Porn...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Ron Jeremy: My Life as a Porn Star | 8/26/2008 | See Source »

...took off jogging again. I skimmed up an escalator, onto a tram, back down and around and finally into a dim waiting room in the remotest frontier of the airport where another crowd of about 120 grumpy people was preparing to board another long-delayed flight. The blank, defeated expression on their faces was all too familiar. It was the resigned look of the villager whose home is being sacked by Visigoths, the hopeless face of a pioneer woman watching her family's crop laid waste by locusts. The face of the American traveler, year 2008. A face I have...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Happy Air Travel Tale (For Real) | 8/22/2008 | See Source »

...army has been keen to rebuild its much-damaged domestic image and distance itself from politics. Any active effort on its part to save Musharraf would have only aroused popular disquiet at a time when the army is struggling to tame militancy in the country's wild North-West Frontier Province...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: In Pakistan, Musharraf Bows Out | 8/18/2008 | See Source »

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