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...hasn't a woman competed in the Bassmaster Classic before? Bass fishing is not like, say, weightlifting, where it's physically impossible for the top women to lift as much weight as the top men. A woman can catch just as big a fish...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Kim Bain-Moore: First Lady of Fishing | 2/20/2009 | See Source »

...Hong Kong - based luxury-hotel operator Shangri-La Hotels and Resorts. Rao, 57, is forging ahead with an aggressive plan to expand Shangri-La's 60-strong network of hotels, even as his business slumps. "We have one single vision," Rao says confidently, "to lift this [company] to another level...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Room Boom | 2/19/2009 | See Source »

Some places figured out that children, those adorable cash suckers, could clear a passage into our pocketbooks, beyond the old kids-eat-free-on-Tuesday promotions. Colorado's Aspen-Snowmass ski resort arranged for kids to fly free and threw in lift tickets for those accompanied by a paying adult. (Read "How To Know When The Economy is Turning...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: In a Recession, the Consumer Is Queen | 2/19/2009 | See Source »

...Minton came through with saves on good shots from Vaillancourt and junior Anna McDonald.The team’s biggest chance came just over two minutes into overtime, when a flurry of Crimson shots left Minton sprawled across the ice. Despite the wide-open net, Harvard couldn’t lift a shot into the goal. “To be honest, I thought they would have been lucky to get a tie from us, so [we’re] pretty disappointed with the way things turned out,” Kester said. “But that?...

Author: By Kate Leist, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Harvard Loses in Overtime to UNH | 2/18/2009 | See Source »

...time when the young West German democracy, some 30 years after the death of Hitler, was shaken to its core. It was a high drama game of cat and mouse: The terrorists would act and the state would react with laws that many Germans felt curbed civil liberties, helping lift the Baader-Meinhof members to mythical status. It's a uniquely German story, but in the age of Guantánamo and Abu Ghraib, many of the themes also resonate with American audiences. "Eichinger has demonstrated that it is possible to treat stories that are inherently German in film...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Baader Meinhof: Action Hit, Oscar Hopeful | 2/16/2009 | See Source »

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