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Before settling on a career, however, Lin has some on-court business to attend to. Harvard has racked up some impressive wins early in the season. The team upset Boston College in early December and knocked off a 9-2 George Washington team on Dec. 30, 66-53. The Crimson...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Harvard's Hoops Star Is Asian. Why's That a Problem? | 12/31/2009 | See Source »

"I can definitely see him being in ministry," says Steve Chen, Lin's mentor and the pastor of the Mountain View, Calif., church the Lin family attends. "But right now, God has gifted him in a specific way, and he's going to go after it hard." If Lin leads...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Harvard's Hoops Star Is Asian. Why's That a Problem? | 12/31/2009 | See Source »

Either way, the drug cartels have already shown they're willing to use high-profile national celebrations as a stage for narco-terror. Last year, during Independence Day festivities in drug-infested Michoacan state, narcos killed seven people with fragmentation-grenade blasts. Mexicans were rattled again in September when bombs...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Why Mexico Is Anxious About Its Bicentennial | 12/31/2009 | See Source »

"The recruiters come in here and lay honey on these kids," says Tim Bigelow, a pony-tailed Yap high school teacher originally from California who served in the military during the Vietnam War - but only after ignoring several draft letters and being faced with imprisonment. Several weeks before every recruiter...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Micronesian Paradise — for U.S. Military Recruiters | 12/31/2009 | See Source »

Yap is part of the Federated States of Micronesia (FSM), an island nation in the western Pacific Ocean that was formerly part of a U.N. trust territory administered by the U.S. after World War II. Under an agreement signed in 1986, the islands were granted independence but citizens were given...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Micronesian Paradise — for U.S. Military Recruiters | 12/31/2009 | See Source »

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