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...school-he had a lot of hype, he never let it get to his head. He just played hard, and he lived up to his expectations. You never see him get in any trouble and things like that. He led his team to the Finals. He's like the perfect athlete I think...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Q&A: Kevin Durant on NBA Draft Day | 6/28/2007 | See Source »

...honeymoons. Many do it because as Americans get married later in life, they are finding they already own the household items that the traditional registry was created for. At the same time, restless consumers are spending ever more money doing things vs. owning things. This has created a perfect market for experiential wedding gifts, and several entrepreneurial websites, including the tourism office of the government of Aruba, have successfully waded in over the past few years. According to thehoneymoon.com for example, only 392 people bought wedding presents on its site in 2001, but 20,000 did last year...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Better Than Table Linen | 6/28/2007 | See Source »

...Guinea-Bissau had the money to paint a sign for arriving visitors, it might read: welcome to the world's newest narco state. This small country in West Africa is such a perfect base for cocaine operations that it could have been designed by Pablo Escobar himself. Escobar and other Colombian drug lords poured untold tons of cocaine into the United States in the 1980s, setting off a narcotics epidemic across urban America, and leading to drug wars which have taken decades and billions of dollars to combat. (See TIME's photo-essay "Guinea-Bissau, the World's First Narco...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cocaine Country | 6/27/2007 | See Source »

...school yearbook’s “In the Future” section. It runs in the family. My older brother was well known around his office last fall for routinely supplying homemade baked goods. Together, we’ve even devised a bake-off to develop the perfect brownie recipe, complete with ballots for taste testers...

Author: By Clifford M. Marks | Title: Street Food | 6/25/2007 | See Source »

...chorus ("Oh, you can't scare me, I'm sticking to the union, / I'm sticking to the union 'til the day I die") but every verse. Roger had picked it off a Pete Seeger record he heard when he was younger and repeated it decades later, word-perfect...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Thumbs Up for Roger Ebert | 6/23/2007 | See Source »

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