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10 Questions.
The High School Musical star grows up in Me and Orson Welles, out Nov. 25. Zac Efron will now take your questions How is Me and Orson Welles different from the other projects you have worked on? Julie Sephora NEW YORK CITY It's sort of a coming-of-ag....
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Epilogue.
Piecing together Nabokov's last novel, The Original of Laura Even by the standards of genius, Vladimir Nabokov's work habits were odd. He wrote much of Lolita in the backseat of the family car, a black 1946 Oldsmobile. (He said it was the only spot i....
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The Waste Land.
Cormac McCarthy's postapocalyptic novel The Road is beautiful on film but no less bleak It's usually fairly easy for a movie critic to drum up a date for a screening. But persuading someone to join you at the film adaptation of Cormac McCarthy's sole....
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Death Becomes Her.
In Pedro AlmodOvar's new film, Penelope Cruz plays an actress gone but not forgotten Often, before a movie scene is filmed, the director and cinematographer will bring in the leading actors' stand-ins to light and frame the shot. The opening image of....
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School of Rock.
Hall of Fame greats unite to make occasionally great music Rock 'N' Roll has never excelled at math. "Two plus two always makes a five," says Radiohead, while Bono famously counts, "Uno, dos, tres, catorce." So why expect better from the Rock and Rol....
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Short List
TIME'S PICKS FOR THE WEEK 1 | MOVIE New Moon The Twilight sequel finds Bella Swan (Kristen Stewart) tacking from vampire heartthrob Edward Cullen (Robert Pattinson) to a love triangle involving werewolf pal Jacob Black (Taylor Lautner). It's enough t....
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The Moment
Black Friday: New York City We are all puritans now. over the past two years, Americans have largely stopped spending more money than we had and running up credit-card tabs we couldn't pay off. To a great extent, we've been hectored into behaving mor....
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The World
10 ESSENTIAL STORIES 1 | Singapore A Setback on Climate Change World leaders signaled they would not seek a legally binding agreement on greenhouse-gas emissions at next month's climate talks in Copenhagen, confirming mounting doubts that the confere....
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The Deference Debate.
In foreign policy, does making nice lead to making progress? Let it be known without apology: Barack Obama is not above the bow. He dipped his head all through Asia--greeting Japan's Emperor with a deep bend at the waist, nodding to Chinese Vice Pres....
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Verbatim
'We participated in things that were clearly wrong and have reason to regret. We apologize.' LLOYD BLANKFEIN, Goldman Sachs' chief executive, speaking during a conference at which he was named CEO of the Year 'I really don't feel that there's current....
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Spotlight: New Mammogram Guidelines
The uproar in the medical community was immediate. In a reversal of standard practice that bewildered physicians and patients around the nation, an independent government panel this week abandoned its long-standing recommendation that healthy women o....
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Yuri Zarakhovich
Yuri Zarakhovich's life was full of skulduggery, danger and crisis. He did, after all, report for TIME as the Soviet empire decayed, fell and tried to resurrect itself as the new Russia. It was two decades of journalistic drama on one of history's bi....
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Earl Cooley
It takes nerve to fight fires. But leaping out of planes and parachuting directly into infernos requires a rare brand of bravery. And no man better exemplified this fearlessness than Montana native Earl Cooley, who died Nov. 9 at 98. Cooley was one o....
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Zynga Harvests The Cyberfarmer
The meteoric and controversial rise of the company whose games you play on Facebook Cheryl Blitman got a horrible shock when she opened her cell-phone bill. It was $170 higher than usual. Her phone company told her that her daughter had subscribed to....
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Survivor: Alaska.
Sarah Palin turned campaign 2008 into reality TV. Now she's trying to launch a second act in the media "You don't need a title to make a difference," declared Sarah Palin on Oprah Winfrey. Well, yes and no. Palin resigned as governor of Alaska last s....
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Cover Description
[The following text appears on the cover.] Left Out: Inside Greg Craig's White House Exit Trauma of War: The Private Hell Of PTSD Obama in Beijing: Why the U.S. [Heart] China. Really. The Case Against Over-Parenting Why Mom and Dad need to cut the st....
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Inbox
Give 'Em Hell, Hillary Joe Klein has made a strong case for why Hillary Clinton should be President [Nov. 16]. Unfortunately, as Secretary of State serving an inexperienced President, she is hampered by Barack Obama's fantasy foreign policy. During t....
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Fat Fees And Smoker Surcharges.
More states adopt tough-love wellness initiatives Psychology Professor Anita Blanchard has a pretty sweet deal with her employer. Even if the 40-something mother of three leaves her job at the University of North Carolina at Charlotte, the state of N....
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TV Dinners Get Literal.
Schwan's Home Service is selling frozen Top Chef dishes. Can reality live up to reality TV? If you want to understand the disconnect between watching cooking shows and wanting to cook, get this: Schwan's Home Service is offering Top Chef--branded fro....
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Church Insecurity.
Soft targets for theft and violent crimes, congregations struggle to balance safety and serenity Jesus may have taught his disciples to turn the other cheek, but these days some churches are hiring armed security teams--just in case that whole forgiv....
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Pop-Up Shops.
More brands are turning vacant retail space into temporary stores. How companies, and consumers, can win Despite the negative sales forecasts for this holiday shopping season, now might be the right time to open a store. A temporary one, that is. As ....
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Power of One.
To recycle is good, but to reuse is better. Freecycle's Deron Beal tells how he started finding homes for millions of people's stuff The lightbulb went off the day I realized that while recycling is great, if someone is able to reuse the stuff you no....
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Postcard: Dearborn.
Islamic communities nationwide are struggling to deal with the aftermath of the Fort Hood massacre. In America's most Muslim city, fears of a backlash A week and a day after the massacre at Fort Hood, Texas, there's a palpable sense of unease among t....
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Contents
4 | 10 QUESTIONS Zac Efron 6 | POSTCARD Dearborn 8 | INBOX BRIEFING 15 | THE MOMENT A Blacker Friday? 16 | THE WORLD Hunger levels in the U.S. rise to an all-time high; leaders downplay hopes for Copenhagen 18 | WHITE HOUSE MEMO Does Obama's bow sign....
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The Wu-Stein Clan.
When picking godparents for our son, we realized blood is thick--but Wu is thicker One of my first thoughts following the birth of my son Laszlo--after figuring out how to get a pizza into the hospital--was, "What happens if my lovely wife Cassandra ....
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Riding the Waves
Believers in financial-market cycles can seem a little nutty. That doesn't mean they're wrong When times are good in financial markets, we're willing to convince ourselves that they're good for a reason. The fundamentals are great, the experts tell u....
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The Fall of Greg Craig
How Obama's lawyer sparked a battle royal when he tried to keep some of the President's campaign promises in the war on terrorism Nearly 100 days after Barack Obama entered office, his top White House lawyer, Greg Craig, braced the President's senior....
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The Hell Of PTSD
Posttraumatic stress can terrorize veterans, their families and military communities. How one Navy veteran--and one Army town--is coping In retrospect, disneyland wasn't an ideal family-vacation spot for Mark Waddell, a Navy SEAL commander whose valo....
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Talking with the Taliban.
There are those who say it's the fastest way out of Afghanistan. But it's easier said than done Abdul Jameel was ready for peace. The commander of a small group of Taliban fighters in the province of Wardak, Afghanistan, Jameel was able to persuade h....
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Can These Parents Be Saved?
Overparenting got way out of control in the past generation. But now a band of rebels is trying to restore some balance and sanity to family life and help bring all those anxious helicopter parents down for a soft landing The insanity crept up on us ....
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Can an Eagle Hug a Panda?
There's no great wall between the economies of China and the U.S. Why both nations need each other Having spent a week in Asia and three intense days in China, President Barack Obama set a constructive tone for the future. He welcomed the emergence o....
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