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...following morning I took a ten-mile run in a placid valley beneath the Green Mountains-a stream, a junkyard dog, an 18th-century one-room schoolhouse, a falconry camp, farms, farms, more farms-then enjoyed a nice breakfast drenched in the world?s best maple syrup and, after shopping, pointed the Honda south. I decided to take the shunpikes down to Brattleboro, hotting village after village. In funky Jamacia, Vermont, I stopped and bought the kids some maple moose pops at the general store. The longhaired kid at the cash register was talking Sox with...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Champs at Midseason | 7/22/2005 | See Source »

Nobody can buy me," California Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger boasted last week at Yahoo!'s headquarters in Silicon Valley. Just two days later, the wealthy Republican--who campaigned on his self-proclaimed independence from special interests, and forgoes his $175,000 state salary--was trying hard to prove it after the Sacramento Bee reported that he had accepted a mondo free-lance gig from a muscle-magazine publisher. According to documents filed with the SEC, just days before taking office in 2003, Schwarzenegger signed a five-year consulting deal, worth at least $1 million annually, with a subsidiary of American Media...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: When A Governor Shouldn't Moonlight | 7/19/2005 | See Source »

...ashamed of this fanatic lurking in their history, and tried to discourage me from going to Alamut, near Qazvin in northwestern Iran, about 80 miles northeast of Tehran. But Mehrdad and I pressed on anyway. We climb the steep rock outcrop atop which Alamut's castle glowers over a valley of cherry orchards in full bloom. Inside the castle, however, we find no trace of the legendary pleasure garden - no crumbling stones of a fountain or wild thorns descended from the garden's roses, only wind, gray rock and grasses. On the ramparts, we encounter a lone guard bearing...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: E-mail From Alamut: In Search of the Assassins' Paradise | 7/18/2005 | See Source »

Some Silicon Valley technology bloggers have criticized the fund for the narrowness of its scope, comparing it to an unsuccessful Java-targeted fund from the late 1990s. The focus on a specific technology could increase the fund’s risk to investors, its critics have suggested...

Author: By Samuel C. Scott, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Investors Bet Bank on RSS Technology | 7/15/2005 | See Source »

...into a long-overdue discussion of just how the rapidly growing population of this arid, drought-prone region plans to meet its water needs without sucking dry every river and aquifer. The future of development in the West may rest on what happens to this elegant dam and the valley it flooded so long...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Is This Worth a Dam? | 7/11/2005 | See Source »

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