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...wife every summer to Kennebunkport, Maine. They were very grateful when he took a walk on the beach one day in 1985 with their eldest son. George W. Bush said that encounter put him on a path to a new relationship with Jesus and "planted a mustard seed" in his soul. But a few years later, he got into an argument with his mother about who exactly could and could not get into heaven. Bush maintained that only born-again Christians were eligible for entrance, as he had been learning in his Bible study; Barbara Bush disagreed and telephoned Graham...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Billy Graham, Pastor In Chief | 8/9/2007 | See Source »

Known as invasive non-indigenous species, such garden mainstays as garlic mustard or Japanese barberry are often cultivated for their beauty and hardiness. Green-thumbed Americans spend $9 billion a year on plants, flowers and trees, but what so many avid gardeners don't know is that by introducing an unfamiliar species to their local topography, they could be triggering a domino effect of significant environmental damage. Though most of the thousands of non-indigenous plants on the market are harmless, the few varieties that cause trouble have sprouted in every corner of the U.S. landscape...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Planting Trouble in Your Garden | 7/13/2007 | See Source »

...will to see me." Yet his old exuberance was missing. The injury had prohibited him from eating a hot dog in more than two weeks, which clearly affected his confidence. But his traditional Beckham-like penchant for hair flair - last year he dyed his thinly cropped head mustard yellow to match the color of the championship belt - was also nowhere to be seen...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Requiem for a Samurai of Hot Dogs | 7/3/2007 | See Source »

...Hong Kong can help with that. We were the mustard seed for the mainland economy, providing not just the investment but also the management concepts that allowed it to grow to where it is today. So too can Hong Kong provide the foundation for the civic institutions that the country will need to truly thrive. China should look to Hong Kong for help developing those institutions...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Now for the Next 10 ... | 6/28/2007 | See Source »

...from the Boston archdiocese, she proceeded to fight. In an interview she explained that nobody "has ever been able to convince me that an annulment was in the best interest of the children, so the argument that was used to keep me in line before didn't cut the mustard this time...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Divorce, Kennedy-Style | 6/20/2007 | See Source »

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