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...actors trying to look like athletes. And move like them, as if a few weeks' practice is all it takes. So we have movies like Wimbledon, in which Kirsten Dunst's character is meant to be the world No. 1 yet her strokes wouldn't stand out at your mother's Wednesday hit-and-giggle...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Footy for Thought | 8/31/2007 | See Source »

...mother of an 11-year-old boy with a Mensa-level IQ and photographic memory, I have pushed for grade skipping and spent hours meeting with school officials to champion gifted-child programs in a long struggle to educate my son in a school that challenges him. TIME's revelation that money spent educating students with the highest IQs is a paltry 10% of the money spent educating students with the lowest IQs comes as no surprise to parents of gifted children. Gifted youth who have the potential to find a cure for cancer or get the U.S. back...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Inbox: Sep. 10, 2007 | 8/30/2007 | See Source »

Like one of the students featured in the article, I was taking Algebra II when I was 11 or 12. My mother pushed school administrators to allow me to do so. I had encountered resistance from a couple of teachers, and their lack of understanding caused some problems. It certainly caused me to abandon math and science. I became a lawyer instead...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Inbox: Sep. 10, 2007 | 8/30/2007 | See Source »

...after seeing his performance in Hairspray. He is extremely talented and very sexy yet wholesome. I haven't been this excited about a celebrity in a long time. And he isn't just for the tweens and teens. I happen to be a 41-year-old mother of two boys...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Inbox: Sep. 10, 2007 | 8/30/2007 | See Source »

...dead and 1,400 injured. The bombings followed anti-Muslim riots in Mumbai, which were sparked by the demolition of a historic mosque in the central Indian city of Ayodhya by Hindu extremists. Dutt maintained that he had procured the weapons to protect his family from threats; his mother Nargis, once a leading actress, was a Muslim. In November 2006, Dutt was exonerated of the terrorism charges but found guilty of possessing a weapon. He began serving his term but was out on bail again last week pending an appeal of his sentence to the Supreme Court...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: India's Movie Stars Behind Bars | 8/30/2007 | See Source »

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