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Swine flu arrived in Macon County, Alabama, last week, showing up in classrooms at all levels and leaving a spate of empty desks in its wake. But authorities are battling the virus on its own turf, using vacant seats as both a map and compass to stem the tide...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Swine Flu Wars: H1N1 Comes to Alabama | 8/28/2009 | See Source »

...days following Senator Edward Kennedy's death, his story will be told by friends and admirers, fellow politicians, family members, pundits and critics. But when Kennedy's mammoth memoir, True Compass, is published on Sept. 14, readers will be able to experience his life story as told by the Senator himself. (See TIME's complete Ted Kennedy coverage...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Kennedy Memoir Set for September Release | 8/26/2009 | See Source »

...Will there be more of the same? It doesn't matter to me, or I to the filmmakers; my G.I. tract, in fact the communal contumely of critics, is irrelevant to box-office performance. G.I. Joe could be a Transformers-size hit, or it could be another The Golden Compass, the first episode of the His Dark Materials novels; that film cost $180 million and helped drive New Line Cinema out of business. Who knows? Nearly 30 years ago, director Robert Benton mused on a famous flop of the day. "When Steven Spielberg made 1941," Benton said, "he probably thought...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: G.I. Joe: The Rise of Cobra: Straight to Self-Parody | 8/7/2009 | See Source »

...chemistry tutors, where he “had a soft-spoken but very active manner.” She said that during the previous resident dean search, she had lobbied for Spoering, who came across "as someone with a very good head on his shoulders and a deep inner compass...

Author: By Molly M. Strauss, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Lowell House Resident Dean Departs | 7/10/2009 | See Source »

...course, some of the new operating system's power will be realized only on the 3GS, which promises to be faster and have a greater variety of bells and whistles (a compass, so that you can see what direction you're facing; a video camera and a 3-megapixel camera) that are missing on the current version. For Apple fans, the only thing that would make this week more exciting would be if Steve Jobs, who's been out on sick leave and is due back by the end of June, finally returned...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: iPhone's New Operating System: A Snappy Upgrade | 6/18/2009 | See Source »

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