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Straightforward as it is, Harvey's book reads like Jacques Derrida compared with Whitney Casey's The Man Plan. A former host of Great Day Houston, Casey is blond, divorced and telegenic enough to get a blurb for her book from Lance Armstrong, the champion bad boyfriend. She polled 250 men to come up with such insights as, Men get confused by shiny jewelry and big handbags, don't like it when hair smells of fajita and are impressed by TV sets hung on the wall...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Advice for the New Dating Game | 2/12/2009 | See Source »

Reading Barthelme, you'd think he crawled from the steaming wreckage of an asteroid that originated in the outer solar system. In fact, he grew up in Houston. Born in 1931, the son of an influential architect, he was a good-looking, headstrong kid with ironic eyebrows like circumflex marks. He was restless and rebarbative, full of jittery, sarcastic energy and the kind of confidence that forms only around a tiny seed of insecurity. After experimenting with college, journalism and marriage in Houston, he got sick of the provinces and lit out for New York City...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Donald Barthelme: America's Weirdest Literary Genius | 2/12/2009 | See Source »

...reminded now of the prediction one hard-nosed political veteran had for the Clintons after those first ugly weeks had passed in early 1993. "They'll learn," Barbara Bush told friends, watching the chaos from the safety of a new house in Houston...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: What Will Obama Learn from the Stimulus Saga? | 2/9/2009 | See Source »

...East Access. Continental is launching daily direct service between Newark Liberty Airport and Shanghai on March 25. To celebrate, the airline is offering a special $777 round-trip fare to Shanghai from Newark. From cities such asa Houston, Miami and Cleveland, the fare is just $888 round-trip to Shanghai on flights that connect through Newark. Tickets must be purchased by Feb. 28 for outbound travel from March 25 to April 30; all travel must be completed by June...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Fashion Week's Couture Tea Cakes and Other Travel News | 2/9/2009 | See Source »

...meantime, the subject of how the California woman came to deliver eight babies - 10 years after a Houston woman gave birth to the first-known living octuplets - is preoccupying fertility doctors across the country. The ASRM is caught up in the craziness too. "If this resulted from an IVF treatment, we can say that transferring eight embryos in an IVF cycle is well beyond our guidelines," the group's president, R. Dale McClure, said in a statement issued four days after Kaiser Permanente Medical Center in Bellflower, a Los Angeles suburb, announced the babies' birth. "We have a process...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Octuplets Fallout: Should Fertility Doctors Set Limits? | 2/2/2009 | See Source »

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