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...cousin, Irving Kofsky, was the oldest man at Burning Man this year. But Andie Grace, a spokesperson for the festival who keeps track of such things at the annual, week-long circus in the Nevada desert, said there's no way to know. "Among the oldest participants I've ever had the pleasure to hang out with, one was actor Larry Hagman, who was born in September of '31," she said. "So your cousin has him beat." Easily. Irving was seven when J.R. Ewing was born...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Oldest Man at Burning Man | 9/1/2008 | See Source »

...think you're the oldest guy at Burning...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Oldest Man at Burning Man | 9/1/2008 | See Source »

...this race and campaigned through the primaries on the strength of his own biography and promise - a new face offering new politics for a new era. But with little more than nine weeks remaining in the campaign, and the race extremely close, here he is running one of the oldest plays in the book...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Convention: Redefining Change | 8/29/2008 | See Source »

...birds migrating each year from Europe to Africa. It is killing the Dead Sea, which, without replenishment from the Jordan, is being reduced in depth about a meter a year. And it is helping decimate Palestinian towns in the occupied West Bank--home to some of the world's oldest continuously inhabited cities--which are slowly dying of thirst without access to the river or the authority to dig their own wells...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Postcard From Jordan Valley | 8/28/2008 | See Source »

...there are different kinds of adversity. One kind goes back to the oldest of all political life stories: the one about being born in a log cabin. Rising from poverty to within grasp of being President clearly does say something admirable both about you and about the country where this can happen. Obama's story is a near perfect 21st century updating of the log-cabin myth...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Everybody Knows the Trouble I've Seen | 8/28/2008 | See Source »

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