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Kids in the town of Panguitch, Utah (pop. 1,600), have a name for Tom Hartsfield: Santa. Hartsfield encourages it, telling them he lives in Utah because it's too cold to stay at the North Pole year round. He'll even invite them to tug his beard if they...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Meet the Real Santas | 12/5/2006 | See Source »

As a popular contrarian, Crichton offers plenty of targets for critics in the reality-based community: his 2004 State of Fear, about global warming as an overwrought conspiracy theory, inspired a Stanford climatologist to denounce it as "demonstrably garbage" and President Bush to invite him to the White House to...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Have You Heard the News? It's in a Novel | 11/28/2006 | See Source »

Living in the same community and bearing goodwill toward one another, however, does not mean that young Christians and Muslims understand each other. "We're in the epicenter of Islam in Australia," says Holy Spirit science teacher David Gearin over a spicy lunch at a Lakemba caf?. "And I asked...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Of Middle Australian Appearance | 11/27/2006 | See Source »

Even after the cutting and streamlining, the book is deeply nuanced--a teen novel in the way that Mark Twain wrote teen novels. Or J.D. Salinger. In fact, the punk conceit of King Dork is that the main character rails against "the cult of Catcher in the Rye." The cover...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: The Revenge of the Dork | 11/26/2006 | See Source »

Buzkashi has actually always been a political game. It's not the horsemen who are the stars, but the sponsors of the event - those who put up the prize money, invite the guests and field the best string of horses and palawans, or wrestlers, as the riders are called. The...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Afghanistan's National Pastime | 11/25/2006 | See Source »

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