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What Are People Googling?

Fri, 11 Apr 2008 09:43:58 GMT

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The Story of Barack Obama's Mother

Fri, 11 Apr 2008 07:15:33 GMT

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Each of us lives a life of contradictory truths. We are not one thing or another. Barack Obama's mother was at least a dozen things. S. Ann Soetoro was a teen mother who later got a Ph.D. in anthropology; a white woman from the Midwest who was more comfortable in Indonesia; a natural-born mother obsessed with her work; a romantic pragmatist, if such a thing is possible.

"When I think about my mother," Obama told me recently, "I think that there was a certain combination of being very grounded in who she was, what she believed in. But also a certain recklessness. I think she was always searching for something. She wasn't comfortable seeing her life confined to a certain box."

Obama's mother was a dreamer. She made risky bets that paid off only some of the time, choices that her children had to live with. She fell in love—twice—with fellow students from distant countries she knew nothing about.

The 2008 TIME 100 Finalists

Fri, 11 Apr 2008 07:11:49 GMT

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Who is Most Influential?

We asked for your thoughts on more than 200 finalists as we compile The TIME 100—our list of the most influential people in the world. Here's how they rate so far on a scale of 1 (least influential) to 100 (the most.)

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Who is on your list?

With so many different fields and individuals to choose from, we want to know who you would pick

Is that really a naked woman in Dick Cheney's sunglasses?

Fri, 11 Apr 2008 06:12:40 GMT

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He shot his hunting partner, but Vice President Dick Cheney apparently doesn't fly fish with naked women.

Since Wednesday, the blogosphere has been atwitter over a photograph on the White House Web site of Cheney with a caption that said he was fly-fishing on the Snake River in Idaho.

The photo is a tight shot of Cheney's face sporting dark sunglasses and his trademark grin.

What's stirring all the buzz is the reflection in the vice president's dark glasses. Some thought that the reflection looked like a naked woman and, this being Cheney and this being the Internet Age, they immediately shared that thought with the world.

In a Google search for the words "Dick Cheney" and "sunglasses," 79,300 hits came back at mid-afternoon on Thursday. By 7 p.m., the count was 130,000.

On DemocraticUnderground.com, the discussion starts with this question: "Notice anything ... interesting ... reflected in his sunglasses? Something that has little to do with conventional 'fly-fishing'?"