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...times as much alcohol content as a regular can of brew. It was better than most $100 wines I've tasted. I shared it with three people, all equally ready to make fun of it, and they each wanted to know where they could buy it for a gift...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Gourmet Groceries — for More! | 4/3/2008 | See Source »

...even as it clings - for better and for worse - to the past, the Masters has a gift for reinventing itself and embracing technological innovation. The tournament uses manual, not electronic, scoreboards, while simultaneously running a website offering up-to-the-second updates. Sandwiches at the venue cost no more than $2.50, even as tickets swap hands for hundreds outside the gates. Spectators are kicked off the property if caught using a cell phone, even though buried under the course's fairways are thousands of feet of high-definition television cable, irrigation pipes wired to an on-site weather radar...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Golf: Living History | 4/2/2008 | See Source »

RMJM CEO Peter Morrison said he hopes that his firm’s gift will help to curb this trend and boost the number of people in his field worldwide...

Author: By Betsy L. Mead, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: New GSD Program Aims To Get More Architects | 3/31/2008 | See Source »

...wins? A Clinton restoration would give Fox the devil--or demonized figure--it knows. But TV abhors a rerun, and the challenge would be to make it fresh. As for Obama, the network is still figuring out how to palatably antagonize him. While the Jeremiah Wright story was a gift--Fox turned him into a dashiki-clad screen saver--Fox's Chris Wallace embarrassingly chastised the hosts of Fox and Friends on-air for "distorting" Obama's words. And Bill O'Reilly caught flak for using the phrase "lynching party" in a critique of Michelle Obama...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Fox on the Run | 3/27/2008 | See Source »

...poem. Sometimes I wish I could just relax, and appreciate life without wanting to continually transform all the good that I see into something else. But I think that's why I've always talked about the blessing and curse of being an artist - you have this special gift, but on the other hand you're never satisfied. The only time I have respite is when something is so great, and seems so perfect that I can't possibly, in any part of my conceit, think that I could improve upon...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Patti Smith — Artistic Triple Threat | 3/26/2008 | See Source »

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