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...Tell me about her. Ellen Gleeson is like a lot of my heroines. She is very ordinary and extraordinary at the same time. I picture her as everywoman and a lot like me. If anyone were to ask me, "What is your defining characteristic?" it's that I'm a mom. And in my case, and her case too, [it's that we're] single moms. So even though she works outside the home, her child is the most important thing in her life and the day she adopts him she feels that her life has become complete...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Novelist Lisa Scottoline | 4/13/2009 | See Source »

There are "infinite paths"? Really? We feel like even a mediocre statistician would tell you that the Harvard concentration list is, without question, finite...

Author: By Maxwell L. Child | Title: Frisbees Are Apparently a More Useful Advising Tool Than the Q Guide | 4/12/2009 | See Source »

...this from personal experience.) "When all of us were 18 to 24, we'd give up a lot of things when we didn't have money, but partying wasn't one of them," says Marchioli. "When it comes to disposable income, [young adults] might have less, but let me tell you, their priorities haven't changed...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Denny's: Where the Food Is Free and Drunks Can Pee | 4/11/2009 | See Source »

...needs to get back to what it does best, find and turn that Pakistani intelligence officer who knows where Osama bin Laden is today. Or turn that Iranian nuclear scientist who can tell us how close Iran is to having a bomb. Neither was ever going to be found in the prisons in Afghanistan or Iraq...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Getting the CIA Out of Its Other Prisons | 4/11/2009 | See Source »

...with the sound of returning fire coming from the guy on my left as he aimed at the darkness below. Adam Ferguson, TIME's photographer, actually stood up to take pictures. It felt like we were taking fire from all sides, but in the dark it's hard to tell. But then, across the road, I could see muzzle flashes coming up from the hillside below. Our protective cocoon of humvee and mountainside had been breached. We had to run again, this time for the protection of another observation post about 150 meters away, while the soldiers at the observation...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Ambushed in Afghanistan: A Reporter Under Fire | 4/11/2009 | See Source »

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