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People like Maureen O'Hare, whom I found shopping for shoes in the Sedalia Wal-Mart with her daughter Ashley Smith and bright-eyed 2-year-old grandson Traven. Sedalia is an old railroad town of about 20,000 people - a population essentially unchanged in the past 90 years. George W. Bush won two-thirds of the vote in Sedalia and surrounding Pettis County in 2004, and one of those votes belonged to O'Hare. But after years of voting for Republicans, she told me, she feels compelled to change horses. Of Obama, she said simply, "I think he would...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: For White Working Class, Obama Rises on Empty Wallets | 10/12/2008 | See Source »

...Ken’s greatest accomplishments has been to solve the puzzle of how to bring a subject to film which is documented almost entirely by photographs,” Tweed Roosevelt ’64, Theodore’s great-grandson, said before the screening...

Author: By Mac Mcanulty, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Documentarian Burns Lauds National Parks | 10/5/2008 | See Source »

Thomas Huckle Weller was born on June 15, 1915 in Ann Arbor, Mich. The son and grandson of physicians—his father, Carl V. Weller was a pathologist at the University of Michigan Medical School—Weller would receive his A.B. and S.M. degrees from the university...

Author: By June Q. Wu and Esther I. Yi, CRIMSON STAFF WRITERS | Title: Weller, Nobel-Prize Winning Public Health Researcher, Dead at 93 | 9/5/2008 | See Source »

...image of a fouled anchor is an official insignia of the U.S. Navy, embossed on jacket buttons and cap badges. As a graduate of the Naval Academy, the son and grandson of admirals, John S. McCain has been contemplating fouled anchors all his life...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Bush in a Box, But One Dem Welcome | 9/3/2008 | See Source »

...Pago Pago, Tipoti's fellow Torres Strait Islander Joey Laifoo has been on his own voyage of self-discovery. Raised on Badu, Saibai and Thursday islands, this grandson of a pearl diver grew up with stories of how his grandmother's side of the family had migrated to Torres Strait from American Samoa; his grandfather's people originally came from Western Samoa. While his affinity with Samoan culture and language is hardly surprising - "I'm blending in really well" - there is still much to learn, he says: "So why did they move to Torres Strait and settle up there...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Oceanic Arc | 8/14/2008 | See Source »

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