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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...into modeling? When I was 14 years old, my mother put me in an etiquette beauty school. One day a scout came up to me and said, "Oh, my gosh, you're going to be the next supermodel." I didn't even know what that meant. He pulled out a picture of Gisele and said, "This is who you can be." But he said I had to lose nine inches off my hips. That was the beginning...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Plus-Size Supermodel Crystal Renn | 10/26/2009 | See Source »

...time Grammy nominee. Huun Huur Tu's sparse, ethereal songs - where simple lutes like the doshpuluur and two-stringed fiddles like the igil form the typical accompaniment - are fleshed out with drum loops, cello, keyboard and guitar, but they are not overwhelmed. In haunting paeans like "Mother Taiga" or "Ancestors Call" the romance of the Tuvan steppe is potently concentrated...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Steppe It Up | 10/26/2009 | See Source »

...read with interest Mike Pandey's claim that "I grew up right next to the Nairobi National Park, where elephants would raid my mother's kitchen garden and lion calls would wake us at night." In those years of his childhood, I was a regular visitor to that park, knew the wardens and, in addition, produced official game mapping for Kenya. There had not been an elephant within or near the Nairobi National Park area since the early days of its foundation many years before - the nearest elephant population being some sixty miles away down the Mombasa Road...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Inbox | 10/26/2009 | See Source »

Uhh…we’ve seen what Dwight’s brother looks like. Do we really want to know what his mother looks like? (Although that would actually be kind of hilarious...

Author: By Michelle L. Quach | Title: Recap: "The Lover" | 10/24/2009 | See Source »

...best-selling author, broke and eating moose? They ran short on money years ago when Michael, due to illness, had to quit his job as the caretaker of the local cemetery. Carolyn had shared the cash from her book sales and big advances to help her daughter, mother, and several friends. After the books no longer sold, what they had left, mostly, were the family and the friends...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: How the Beans of Egypt, Maine, Sprouted a Militia | 10/24/2009 | See Source »

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