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Author: /time Magazine | Title: Travel News: Great Places to Skate this Season | 12/7/2008 | See Source »

...acting skills in the slightest.This tired romance also overshadows the more worthwhile story of assimilation in Australia, where Aboriginal children were removed from their families to be blended into white culture and purged of their heritage (a story more effectively depicted in the 2002 drama “Rabbit-Proof Fence”). Nullah, though, with a speaking pattern and attitude resembling Short Round in “Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom,” is mostly ineffective as a face of the tragedy. Instead he’s just another participant in a long parade...

Author: By Samuel E. Chalsen, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Australia | 12/5/2008 | See Source »

...usual table, leaning into the candle that burned weakly in the tavern’s noxious air. Reaching into the pocket of his tattered waistcoat, Ollie produced a letter and held it up between his thumb and forefinger.“’Ere’s the proof,” Ollie said. “The old maid was a tough ol’ bag, Oi should say.” He handed over the envelope, which was discolored and stained from years of storage in who knows what filthy London apartment. The Stable Boy removed...

Author: By Lesley R. Winters, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: The Stable Boy | 12/5/2008 | See Source »

...election despite apparent groping of pubescent granddaughter's breast by in TV ad is weirdly spun by Republicans as not the predictable result it always was in Georgia, for God's sake - no matter how much the Democrats really, really wanted 60 Senate seats - but proof of the country's repudiation of Obama...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Paul Slansky's Weekly Index of the News | 12/5/2008 | See Source »

...created by Hoover Dam in 1935. Lake Mead holds Nevada's 130 billion gal. share of the Colorado River's flow, split with six other states in the West--and for decades, says Pat Mulroy, head of the Southern Nevada Water Authority, "we'd assumed it was virtually drought-proof...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Dying for A Drink | 12/4/2008 | See Source »

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