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...gentle fadeaway: "He went to the window and looked out into the darkness. Snow was falling gently through the spruce trees." But that's not good for half the year. If you just pause and say, "That's the news from Lake Wobegon, where all the women are strong, all the men are good-looking and all the children are above average," problem solved...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: 10 Questions for Garrison Keillor | 12/21/2009 | See Source »

...Attended a private Catholic girls' school in nearby Lake Forest and then Georgetown University, where she gradated magna cum laude in 1984 with a degree in finance...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Jenny Sanford | 12/14/2009 | See Source »

...some tanners—he writes that by “August 2010, I plan to naturally improve my vision to at least 20/20, fall in love, and live with my amazing, loving friends & family in nature, peace & abundance in a warm climate next to a lake in a cozy log cabin.” Any man that can fix his own eyes by sheer will power and find a log cabin in a warm climate—he’s OK in my book...

Author: By Jessica L. Fleischer, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Cover Your Eyes: The Return of Diamond Mag | 12/11/2009 | See Source »

...investigation cited the wrong altitude for the lake bed as the key reason for the crash (neither officer aboard the second F-15E was named in the probe) but spelled out several contributing factors. The crew was tired - wearing night-vision goggles increases eyestrain and fatigue - and crashed at 2:30 a.m., the sleepiest time in the human sleep cycle. Night-vision goggles reduce depth perception, especially when there's little ambient light and the ground is flat and barren. The crew "channelized" its attention on the attack run, ignoring warning signs that danger was imminent. Finally, "expectancy" played...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Behind an Afghanistan Plane Crash: Missed Signals | 12/9/2009 | See Source »

...Pastor Rick Warren, the author of The Purpose Driven Life. Controversy over the anti-gay bill, however, led Warren, who has a large East African network of connections, to sever ties with Ssempa. Ssempa, who has told reporters of a secret group of witches who live beneath Lake Victoria, has a rapt student following and has organized antihomosexuality parades and burned condoms. Warren, who hews to evangelical Christianity's denunciation of homosexual behavior, was involved in controversy when gay activists and other critics condemned Barack Obama's decision to have him deliver the invocation at the presidential Inauguration in January...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: On Scene: With Uganda's Anti-Gay Movement | 12/9/2009 | See Source »

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