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When did you realize the book was taking off? I was driving from Mississippi to Atlanta with some friends of mine and there was this tornado that literally tore across the highway. We had to pull over, so we went to this truck stop and were drinking beers when [my...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Kathryn Stockett, Author of The Help | 11/11/2009 | See Source »

After the world-televised seating of family and famous friends, most of Michael Jackson's Sept. 3 funeral took place behind the closed gates of Forest Lawn Memorial Park in Glendale, Calif. The event's costs, however, were only made public yesterday, when court papers were released as lawyers continued...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Michael Jackson's $1 Million Funeral: The Breakdown | 11/11/2009 | See Source »

According to the papers, more than $1 million went into the event, including the solid bronze casket with 14-karat gold-plated handles and the party following the ceremony - all of which needed court approval for Michael Jackson's estate to cover the costs. That's a lot of This...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Michael Jackson's $1 Million Funeral: The Breakdown | 11/11/2009 | See Source »

While most scientists would write off the event as a freak accident, two esteemed physicists have formulated a theory that suggests an alternative explanation: perhaps a time-traveling bird was sent from the future to sabotage the experiment. Bech Nielsen of the Niels Bohr Institute in Copenhagen and Masao Ninomiya...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Did a Time-Traveling Bird Sabotage the Collider? | 11/11/2009 | See Source »

Particle physics has a long history of zany theories that turned out to be true. Niels Bohr, the doyen of modern physicists, often told a story about a horseshoe he kept over his country home in Tisvilde, Denmark. When asked whether he really thought it would bring good luck, he...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Did a Time-Traveling Bird Sabotage the Collider? | 11/11/2009 | See Source »

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