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Both his shoulder muscles and his health knitted back together, although he still cannot get life insurance. Since then, Wyeth, along with finishing two or three temperas a year, has set himself to continuing the dynasty. His eldest son, Nicky, 20, is a freshman at Delaware's Wesley Junior...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: TIME Cover: Andrew Wyeth's World | 1/16/2009 | See Source »

The Obama team, meanwhile, seems to have learned from Bush about dealing with the press. During the campaign, Obama, like Bush, exercised tight message control, limited press availability and disregarded old-media courtship rituals. Incoming press secretary Robert Gibbs pointedly told the New York Times Magazine that Obama never sat...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: In the Obama Era, Will the Media Change Too? | 1/15/2009 | See Source »

My biggest problem living with a Maasai family in Tanzania was not the roof made of sticks and cow shit that I slept under nightly. It was actually the nightly war against my homestay sister for space on the family cowhide where we slept. I would settle down as best...

Author: By Megan A. Shutzer, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Coming of Age in Ngare Sero | 1/15/2009 | See Source »

"Obama ist mein Kandidat” reads the newspaper in the stands. I’ve stopped to visit a friend in Berlin on my way to Madrid, and all around me these words are emblazoned above a photo of Hillary Clinton. “Man, I hope he wins...

Author: By Amanda C. Lynch, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Oh Say Can You Sí | 1/15/2009 | See Source »

I learned several things. There's the five-row rule. When a professor in England, Ed Galea, analyzed the seating charts of more than 100 plane crashes and interviewed 1,900 survivors and 155 cabin-crew members, he discovered that survivors usually move an average of five rows before they...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Q&A: How to Survive a Plane Crash | 1/15/2009 | See Source »

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