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...stand-up comic and quasi-stay-at-home dad. Home for Seinfeld (who made a reported $225 million for Seinfeld's syndication alone and appears almost annually on Forbes' list of richest celebrities) is an apartment overlooking Central Park. It's also an estate in the Hamptons, on Long Island, that he purchased for $32 million from Billy Joel in 2000 and a new spread in Telluride, Colo., not far from Tom Cruise's place. He keeps his collection of Porsches (he won't say how many, though it's assumed there are more than 30) in a private garage...
...show. In his current act, Seinfeld jokes, "I was dating for 25 years. Do you know how exhausting that was? Do you know how much acting fascinated I did?" But Jessica, whom he calls a "neighborhood girl," actually did fascinate him. Like Seinfeld, she had grown up on Long Island, and of all the nice Jewish girls available to him, he says, "she was the nicest." There was one catch: two months earlier, she had married Eric Nederlander, the son of a prominent New York family in the theater business. Her marriage ended, she and Seinfeld began dating...
...good to see that TIME takes such interest in India. The country has some of the oldest cultures in the world, and despite its terrible poverty, shambolic infrastructure and dreadful corruption, its people are wonderful. It is also an island of democracy. To the north of India is Tibet, whose culture has been crushed by the occupying forces of China. South of India, Sri Lanka is unfortunately embroiled in a civil war. East of India, there are virtually no genuine democracies until one gets to Australia, and to the west, not until Greece. It is in the interests of free...
...Luxembourg is just 999 square miles, “slightly smaller than Rhode Island.” (Thanks, CIA World Factbook...
...president of Iceland called his tiny island nation a leader in confronting climate change and urged others to follow suit, emphasizing the importance of geothermal energy in a speech at the Science Center last night...