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After a time, Obama steps away, and Biden reaches for his wedge. The ball miraculously splits the trunks and bounds onto the green, less than 20 feet from the pin. Amid the caravan of golf carts, including those of the Secret Service detail, a doctor and the ever present nuclear...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Barack Obama: America's (Not So Great) Golfer-in-Chief | 8/9/2009 | See Source »

Now a new study published in the July 27 Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS) shows that orangutans keep their footing - and their fingering - in the trees by moving with an irregular, offbeat rhythm that effectively counters the shaking caused by their considerable weight. "Orangutans rock flexible tree...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Like Tarzan, Orangutans Glide Through Trees | 7/28/2009 | See Source »

In the absence of divine intervention, resolution of the settlement conflict will have to depend on human effort. Itay Zar and Sharon Katz are profoundly unlike each other, but Palestinians revile them equally. To the Arabs, Israeli settlements have sliced and diced up territory that once belonged to them, taking...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Israeli Settlers Versus the Palestinians | 7/27/2009 | See Source »

'It is not a state secret that he wears Speedo swimming trunks. For goodness' sake, let's grow up.' DAVID MILIBAND, British Foreign Secretary, defending Sir John Sawyers, the incoming head of MI6, the U.K.'s Secret Intelligence Service, after Sawyers' wife was assailed for posting photos and personal information...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Verbatim | 7/20/2009 | See Source »

Well, that was a situation where I jumped in joy from a pier about 30 feet high into the murky waters, not knowing that just two, three feet under the surface there were gigantic tree trunks stabilizing this whole thing. I didn't see them; I dove down headfirst and...

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

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