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...drunk neat and chilled, some connoisseurs suggest sampling the spirit in a wine glass at room temperature. This allows the vodka to aerate and, when it hits your tongue, reveal its true flavor. If you feel a burning or tingling in your mouth, then you're drinking the cheap stuff. A good vodka will create a warming sensation that gradually spreads through your body. So put away the soda water and tomato juice - these vodkas deserve the glass to themselves...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: That's the Spirit | 9/3/2008 | See Source »

...George's. But then everything else is made up. There's a chapter where Charlie Blackwell is drinking heavily, and he buys the baseball team and gives up drinking and finds religion, and obviously those have George Bush parallels. But there's all this other stuff that has to do with a Princeton reunion, and Alice Blackwell's sister-in-law having doubts about her own marriage. So even in the sections that borrow most heavily from real life, almost everything is made up. And of course, literally, every scene is made up - because even if we all know that...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Q&A: Curtis Sittenfeld | 9/2/2008 | See Source »

...book called For Love of Politics: Inside the Clinton White House by Sally Bedell Smith. I interviewed some people who worked in the White House. Because the book takes place primarily in Wisconsin, I ordered 1960s Wisconsin yearbooks off eBay, and I interviewed people from Wisconsin. For the Princeton stuff I talked to Princeton librarians. And I interviewed friends and family members who I thought had expertise on any topic that might be relevant to the book...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Q&A: Curtis Sittenfeld | 9/2/2008 | See Source »

...designed a browser window that is streamlined and simple," Sundar Pichai, vice president of product management, and Linus Upson, engineering director, wrote on the official Google blog on Monday afternoon. "To most people, it isn't the browser that matters. It's only a tool to run the important stuff - the pages, sites and applications that make up the Web. Like the classic Google homepage, Google Chrome is clean and fast. It gets out of your way and gets you where you want...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Google Enters the Browser Wars | 9/2/2008 | See Source »

...stuff like this that makes Republican leaders think God is on their side...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Slow, Shaky Start for the GOP | 9/1/2008 | See Source »

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