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...Twilight life like living in a bubble? And if so, tell us about your bubble. I wouldn't call them concessions, but there are alterations - and only fleeting alterations - that you need to make. Right now New Moon is coming out, and it's a big deal. I'm in Los Angeles promoting it, and everybody knows where I'm going to be. So right now it's the most intense time. But it already feels like it's going away almost as I speak. What's my life like? I'm sort of a homebody anyway...
Anyone who’s overheard a lengthy telephone conversation between me and my mother likely felt remotely creeped out, and with good reason. I tell her what I had for lunch that day. I tell her about the problem set I aced. I tell her, far more often, about the problem set I bombed. I tell her about my latest column (hi, Mom!). She responds just as parents should, showing an absurd level of interest in the mundane details of my everyday existence. Yet in the history of this overshare-heavy relationship, I have never once uttered the sentence...
...eventually did see one meteor, but it was extremely faint and short-lived. We're told that this is the way most meteors appear, especially when there's so much light pollution. So was it worth it? Honestly, we're too tired to tell. Now we just want to sleep...
...Obama Sr.'s eight children with four women, Ndesandjo was raised by both birth parents until their divorce in the early 1970s. He has refused to tell reporters his age, but he is likely to be in his early 40s. Ndesandjo says his father was brilliant but that alcoholism drove him to beat his wife and children. "The relationship I had with my father was a difficult one," he says, fighting back tears. "I didn't have positive memories of my dad because of domestic violence." (See the top 10 Barack Obama backlashes...
While newspapers in the U.S. are still filled with reports of foreclosures and ongoing declines in home prices, the headlines in China tell a different story. One local daily reports that in Shanghai on Oct. 30, more than 200 potential buyers crammed into the sales office of a new housing development, snapping up 120 of the 150 available apartments in just one night. Several weeks earlier in the central Chinese city of Wuhan, 300 people lined up to buy new apartments, some of them arriving two days before the sale. A picture in the local press showed eager customers...