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...Apatow and Rogen just do the honorable thing and tell the world they're gay? It would save them a lot of time wasted pretending their movies are about young men growing up and finding the right young woman. It would also save movie critics from having to find new ways of saying, about their maxi-raunch comedies, "Oh, but at heart they're really sweet...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Superbad: A Fine Bromance | 8/17/2007 | See Source »

First come the billboards. As you head north, away from downtown Denver, they flip by like flash cards, advertising houses by Lennar, KB Home and Richmond American, from the $100s, the $170s, the low $300s. What they don't tell you is that should you wander into one of the new subdivisions popping up from the prairie, you're likely to be offered tens of thousands of dollars in incentives to buy, and to buy now. At a recent conference of Colorado builders and real estate agents, one speaker counseled salespeople to stop acting so desperate. "It sends the signal...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Ground Zero of the Real Estate Bust | 8/16/2007 | See Source »

People often wonder how to tell if their child is gifted. Truly gifted kids are almost always autodidacts. Take Max Oswald-Selis. He moved to Reno from Sydney with his mother Gael Oswald so that he could attend Davidson. Max is 12. The first time I saw him at the academy, he was reading an article about the Supreme Court. He likes to fence. He loves Latin because "it's a very regimented language ... There's probably at least 28 different endings for any given verb, because there's first-, second- and third-person singular and plural for each tense...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Are We Failing Our Geniuses? | 8/16/2007 | See Source »

...that the baseball gods aren’t going to let you stay like that,” Wendt said. “You can tell [Wilson] is a rookie level player because he’s pressing a little bit right now, but I’m very impressed with how he handles himself...

Author: By Loren Amor, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Chasing A Dream | 8/16/2007 | See Source »

...Rafa, your "La Bamba" performance is a YouTube favorite. Who knew you had such talent? So tell me, which tv show do you think you could win, "American Idol" or " Dancing with the Stars"? -Sharon Roberts, Houston I am very bad in both dancing and singing. If I have to choose, I am worse in singing. My dancing is not OK, but it's not worse than my singing...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: 10 Questions for Rafael Nadal | 8/15/2007 | See Source »

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