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Having lived in England for over a decade as London correspondent for the New York Times, Sarah Lyall has compiled her spot-on observations about the British into her new book The Anglo Files (Norton, 256 pages). She spoke to TIME from her London office. We can't say she was drinking tea as she spoke to us, but we can't say she wasn't, either...
...Midwestern girl ends up in the White House. Readers will recognize Laura and George Bush as the inspiration for Sittenfeld's first couple, Alice and Charlie Blackwell, but it's the author's rich imagination that brings the Blackwells to life. TIME's senior arts editor Radhika Jones spoke to Sittenfeld a few days before the book's publication on Sept. 2, timed by her publishers to coincide with the Republican National Convention...
...Then came a series of ads that mixed video of Americans from around the country coming together to build a wind turbine - the soaring symbol of green power - while a narrator spoke of the need to "repower America" by pushing politicians in Washington for a rapid switch to 100% clean energy in 10 years. Other ads showcased gleaming solar thermal plants, and other new clean technologies breaking the horizon...
...mostly positive press coverage, and reignited Republican enthusiasm, after his announcement Friday that he had selected Alaska Governor Sarah Palin as his running mate. Other messages that the campaign aimed to promote in the days leading up to the convention have also also been disrupted. For instance, McCain spoke Sunday at a rally in Missouri that brought together two of his formal rivals for the Republican nomination, Mitt Romney and Mike Huckabee, who have had tense relations since the end of the primary campaign. Huckabee notably called Romney "my colleague and my friend," a rare expression of warmth...
...have been killed as the floods washed out the roads and railroad lines that connected residents to the rest of the country. "We can't reach there," says Dinesh Kumar Mishra, a civil engineer and head of the non-profit group Barh Mukti Abhiyan (Freedom from Floods Campaign), who spoke to TIME from northern Bihar, where he is trying to organize relief efforts. "They are trapped." Mishra, who has been tracking monsoon floods for more than 20 years, says this year's flooding in Bihar is worse than previous years. "It is concentrated in a capsule form in one particular...