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...That's probably the reason I couldn't touch it for over 20 years, and my own wife, who knows me well, only managed to read up to page 80 and cannot continue. It's so hard for her to take what I have gone through ... it's something which deeply touched my existence...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Werner Herzog | 7/6/2009 | See Source »

...their children coming home late at night in the pitch black. "My wife has all the good ideas," Grote, who runs an advertising agency, tells TIME. "I discussed the problem with her and we thought it must be possible to have the lights available on demand." Dieter got in touch with the local utility company Lemgo and together they came up with a solution: How about turning on the village lights with a simple telephone call? Lemgo developed a special modem and software to make it possible, and Dial4Light was born. (See pictures of the odyssey of the cell phone...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Germany's Bright Idea: Street Lighting on Demand | 7/1/2009 | See Source »

...foot of Sinuiju's giant statue of Kim Il Sung, the country's founding father, to finish their homework. With little electricity in the town, the spotlights pointed at the statue were one of the few sources of light. The North Koreans escorting us were so out of touch with the outside world that they showed us their city to boast of their prosperity, not expose their poverty. (See pictures of North Korea going to the polls...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: North Korea's Other Crisis: An Economy in Tatters | 6/30/2009 | See Source »

...comedies (Two Weeks Notice), dramas (The Lake House) and female-bonding weepies (Divine Secrets of the Ya-Ya Sisterhood). Yet every year or so, Bullock goes back in front of the camera, trying to prove there's a place in movies for a star actress with a light, sure touch. And each time, her fans show up, hoping this will be the film that is as winning as they know she can be. (Watch "The Never-Ending Role of Sandra Bullock...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sandra Bullock Should Have Said No to The Proposal | 6/29/2009 | See Source »

That means Obama is still looking for someone he can pray with and turn to for spiritual guidance. George W. Bush and Bill Clinton stayed in close touch with their hometown pastors after moving to the White House. Not long into his first term, Clinton also started scheduling regular meetings with Bill Hybels, pastor of a Chicago-area evangelical megachurch called Willow Creek. Three other religious leaders - Phil Wogaman, Tony Campolo and Gordon MacDonald - went to the White House for monthly prayer sessions with Clinton after the Lewinsky scandal, as impeachment began to weigh...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Obamas Find a Church Home — Away from Home | 6/29/2009 | See Source »

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