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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...Granny D., the 89-year old woman who took a 14-month walk across the country in support of campaign finance reform: "There's a passage in Granny D.'s book in which she talks about how her fascination with roadkill sometimes put her fellow walkers off...Just outside of Phoenix, she was walking with a needy vegetarian who looks like 'the Carradine boy from Kung Fu.' The duo stumble upon a dead fox in the road. His body is still warm. The vegetarian drags the carcass under a tree. Granny D. waxes philosophical, saying, 'If you are afraid...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: What Do Old People Know, Anyway? | 1/2/2009 | See Source »

...located in a converted Boeing 747 at Stockholm's Arlanda Airport, gives you a chance to do what you've always dreamed: getting a good night's sleep aboard a plane. If you'll be flying out of Arlanda in the morning, the hostel is just a 10-minute walk from the airport's check-in desks. There's also a café on board, flat-screen TVs, free wi-fi and a viewing platform on the left wing. Jumbo Hostel's 25 rooms are shared, as are the bathrooms in the corridors, but there is one private room with...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Travel News: An Inauguration Day How-To | 1/2/2009 | See Source »

...have our own ritual that has evolved over the years. It usually starts with blowing a conch-shell horn to rouse all the members. We walk down the beach, form a larger circle, do some jumping jacks to get the blood flowing. And one of our members always has a chant - a different chant each week that we always do our jumping jacks to. Then we go into the water and form a larger circle there - people are welcome to scream - and then it's a kind of open swim after that. For the past few years, the New York...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Coney Island's Human Polar Bear | 1/1/2009 | See Source »

...what if your con is certain to fail? Why would any self-respecting scoundrel pick a scheme that's guaranteed to end in handcuffs and a perp walk? That's what a lot of people are asking as 70-year-old Bernie Madoff cools his heels under house arrest, charged with masterminding a decades-long, $50 billion Ponzi scheme that has incinerated wealth around the world. (See the top 10 scandals...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Putting Bernie Madoff On The Couch | 12/31/2008 | See Source »

...yard drive." That drew applause and laughter and prompted one member of the crowd to shout, "Better than your bowling," in reference to Obama's 33 score during a campaign stop in Pennsylvania earlier this year. Obama replied, "That's right," and smiled and laughed before turning back to walk toward the green to size up his putt...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: How Good is Barack Obama at Golf? | 12/31/2008 | See Source »

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