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...this setting, there has always been something particularly childlike about Nadal's public persona, from his obsessive prematch routine of arranging his water bottles just so, to his compulsive butt-scratching between points, to his habit of posing for championship photographs while biting onto trophies like a teething tot...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Tennis: Nadal's New Spin | 1/8/2009 | See Source »

...those transatlantic ties, largely disrupted in the 1980s by U.S. investigations and local Sicilian turf wars. He had allowed members of a historic Mafia family, the Inzerillos, to return to Palermo in recent months from more than two decades of forced exile in the U.S. after former top boss Totò Riina tried to exterminate the entire clan. Piero Angeloni, head of Palermo's police detective unit, says Lo Piccolo's arrest is likely to stall Sicilian efforts to deepen links with the "Americani." But the contacts are sure to continue. "This relationship is essential - it always has been," Angeloni...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Decapitation: Mafia Adaptation | 11/8/2007 | See Source »

...count this money when we tot up our net worth. If you don't want to sell your house, you can borrow against its rising value. Nowhere is the real estate insanity of recent years more vividly on display than in the market for second mortgages. Lenders hawk them like patent medicines in the 19th century, as a cure for all your ills...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Your House Is Worth Less? Good | 8/23/2007 | See Source »

...hypnotic repetition can put a tot to sleep, then this is a surefire bedtime story. The word sleepy occurs 31 times in Shulevitz's lulling text, in which even the objects in a sleepy boy's room--bed, clock, dishes, pictures on the wall--are sleepy. In a dreamlike interlude, music and dancing awaken the room in the wee hours. But the music fades; silence falls again. And when every sleepy thing is so sleepy sleepy, the spell of sleepiness becomes irresistible...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: 7 Books Kids Will Love | 12/3/2006 | See Source »

...With her distinctive raven locks, little Suri, it seems, has now merely been marked for easier recognition by gawkers and lensmen. The good news is, pretty Suri has got years to go before her awkward phase. And by that time Lindsay Lohan's tot should be ready to crawl up and take some of the heat...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: All Suri, All the Time | 9/7/2006 | See Source »

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