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He was not alone. In many U.S. election seasons, the rest of the world doesn't pay much attention to the strange hoopla until the two main candidates have emerged. Costly state-by-state elections to determine presidential nominees can appear like charming overkill, as if the U.S. is trying...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Feeling the Spirit | 3/6/2008 | See Source »

This troubling trend is partially due to Japan's chronically low birth rate. The country's student body is shrinking. The number of 18-year-olds - a group that accounts for 90% of first-year college students - plunged 35% between 1990 and 2007, from 2 million to 1.3 million, according...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Class Dismissed | 3/6/2008 | See Source »

Rose Valland looked nondescript - an ideal trait for a spy. Gray and unglamorous, with black-rimmed glasses that gave her a perpetual frown, she was virtually invisible to the Nazis who, in 1940, were using the Jeu de Paume museum in Paris as a depot for thousands of plundered art...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Spoils of War: Looted Art | 3/6/2008 | See Source »

At the start of the war, the Nazis looted systematically, but as the Third Reich collapsed, they plunged into an anarchic free-for-all. Allied soldiers in Germany later found stashes of plundered art in a cavernous salt mine, in castles, piled to the eaves in churches, and in the...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Spoils of War: Looted Art | 3/6/2008 | See Source »

10) Paris Hilton—pop tarts are like so hot.

Author: By Christopher B. Fuller, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Who stole the money from the PfoHo jar? | 3/5/2008 | See Source »

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