President-elect Barack Obama has won another contest: He's been named Time magazine's "Person of the Year" for 2008.
Reggie Love's athletic aspirations are on hold.
The memories are 64 years old but retold with the clarity of yesterday: a young boy lowered by rope into a deep dark cave, watching the sky above shrink to a small and distant patch of blue.
Kurt Warner threw for 351 yards Sunday, his fifth straight 300-yard passing game.
Despite the ability to watch video on computers and cell phones, Americans are viewing more television than ever.
Friday night lights have ruled the football-loving landscape in West Texas for decades. This year, Saturday nights are the hot ticket.
It took time, but Israeli police detectives have cracked one of the country's greatest crimes — the legendary heist of a priceless clock collection from a Jerusalem museum a quarter century ago.
The Philadelphia Flyers have changed the start time for their Oct. 25 game against New Jersey to 4 p.m. to avoid a conflict with Game 3 of the World Series.
Officials have set a 6 p.m. start time for Saturday's Charleston Southern-Wofford football game.
Never mind those stinging "celebrity" ads, or the rebuttal by Paris Hilton. Musicians, artists and Hollywood types are descending on Denver — and so what if Barack Obama doesn't need their star power?
The Group of Eight nations, holding their annual summit in Japan starting Monday, have always been a club for the world's biggest and brightest economies. Now a growing chorus is saying it's time the clubhouse doors swing open to some newcomers.
President Bush and Congress have settled their differences on terrorist surveillance and Iraq war money. Now attention turns to a potential housing rescue, probably the last major initiative with any chance of passing before lawmakers scatter to campaign for re-election.
The average investor will no longer have to wait 15 or 20 minutes to find out what stocks are doing as multiple financial Web sites launch free real-time quote services.
When the Pentagon closed the Brooklyn Navy Yard in 1966, it became an obsolete facility awash in history but torpedoed by time.
Playwright, actor and filmmaker Tyler Perry, media mogul Rupert Murdoch, former British Prime Minister Tony Blair and New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg are among the newsmakers on Time magazine's list of the world's 100 most influential people.
President Bush easily won six of the seven states where Democrats Barack Obama and Hillary Rodham Clinton will spend the next several weeks campaigning. Bush's 2004 margin over Democrat John Kerry in states yet to hold their 2008 Democratic primaries:
Democrats Barack Obama and Hillary Rodham Clinton will spend the next six weeks campaigning in states that are irrelevant to their November strategies, a break for Republican John McCain as he focuses on battlegrounds for the fall.
The outcome has never been more inevitable. Tiger Woods has never looked so invincible. The world's No. 1 golfer faced a 25-foot birdie putt on the final hole at Bay Hill, and the moment he settled over the ball and the crowd grew quiet, it no longer mattered that Woods had not made a putt this long all week.
Just days after he took the top Pentagon job, Defense Secretary Robert Gates reached into his pocket and pulled out a small digital counter. As a small group of reporters looked on, he watched it tick down the seconds until he would happily leave his new post.
A deeply unsettled nation takes the first step this week in choosing a president to confront a world of challenges that have flummoxed the current administration and undermined Americans' confidence in government.
Russian President Vladimir Putin was named Time magazine's "Person of the Year" on Wednesday for imposing stability that restored Russia as a world power.
There's not much left to remember Robert Sellon by. A single, wallet-sized photo tucked into a framed collage. Old newspaper clippings. Many, many memories. But Tammi Smith doesn't let go easily. Nearly 26 years after her half brother was murdered, she can still mimic the way he smiled, the way he talked. And she recounts what must have happened the night he was beaten to death in a Grand Rapids pool hall.
An Apatosaurus rears its head in anger, swinging its tail wildly, determined to prevent the predatory Allosaurus from attacking its baby. From behind, a second Allosaur bounds toward the scene, intent on helping his mate secure a snack.
Much of the great joy of reading an author like Gabriel Garcia Marquez is the fact that you're reading him — that you're allowing yourself to become engrossed in his florid phrasing and vivid descriptions, that he's taking you to a fully realized place, and that you're succumbing, gladly.
Fred Thompson spent years acting on NBC's evening drama "Law & Order," but is he ready for presidential prime time?
And they told me, "Time wait's for no man." Now I want to know why the earth is slowing down...is it going to stop?
I have called my Senators and Congresswoman and have suggested the following. If we are going to loan banks money for next to nothing then they should be forced to loans this money for a low interest rate.
The historic 2008 election inspired thousands of people around the world to post their Obama-themed photography and art on the image-sharing site Flickr. Here is the best of the 100,000 images TIME examined.
Journalist Jennifer Skiff compiles firsthand accounts from around the world of encounters with a higher power. An excerpt.
No, Time magazine's cover portrait of Barack Obama for its Person of the Year issue was not an official campaign image. But casual readers could be forgiven for thinking otherwise.The cover illustration, of a flag-hued Mr.
With Christmas just around the corner, it's crunch time to get your treats baked for holiday gifts and gatherings. This recipe for dark and white chocolate peppermint bark is sweet, simple and won't bust your budget.
"I'm a bit surprised the agency bothered to commission an investigation - it would probably have been enough to just ask an in-house science advisor," he says. More Articles
In one of the craziest elections in American history, he overcame a lack of experience, a funny name, two candidates who are political institutions and the racial divide to become the 44th President of the United States.
Excerpt: Astrologers posting on one of the Web's most popular true-crime forums predicted that the body of missing Caylee Marie Anthony, 2, of Orlando, Fla., was hidden in her own neighborhood and would indeed be found, despite the passage of months and the failure of massive s …
Excerpt: Earlier today, we heard from criminal profiler Pat Brown, who offered her thoughts on how yesterday's discovery of child skeletal remains will affect Casey Anthony's cooperation in the case - if those remains are identified as that of Anthony's missing two-year-old daugh …
Apparently, the U.S. economy isn't the only thing slowing down. An international group of time-keepers are adding an extra second to the end of December 31st.
JOYS OF CHRISTMAS TIME Christmas time is in the air, the Spirit of Christmas, everywhere; Fresh falling snow; dancing around; before it falls and blankets the ground. All the children build their snowmen, while Mom's and Dad's have cheers with their friends.
As the first snowflake floats to the ground, the first thing that comes to some minds are (a) how much snow will fall and (b) what should one be adding to the iPod this year? It's true.
Check this out - it's a video clip demoing some new product from Adobe. It lets you select page elements and view them over time - it also seems to be capable of pulling data out dynamically, and comparing it to other data.
I'd been invited to participate in a radio blog chat about the relatiionships between science fiction and science.
The problem is that the Earth is very gradually slowing down, continually throwing the two timescales out of synch, so every so often, a "leap second" has to be tacked on to the atomic clock.
Late-night drinkers are to be given tea and biscuits as part of a taxpayer-funded scheme to cut rowdy behaviour at closing time.
The oldest prison inmate in Massachusetts, a career criminal who was the first person to make the FBI's Ten Most Wanted list twice, has died at 92.
We spend so much time saving a few bucks on Black Friday. Maybe we should be just as diligent to spent time saving dollars in other dealings in our lives.
As 2008 turns to 2009 at the end of this month, an extra second will be added to every clock. But who decides exactly what time it is? Professor Brian Cox meets the man in charge of all our timekeeping - the world's director of time.
gloriahnt wrote: David, Only the haters have and will continue to oppose your positive commentary about President-Elect Obama. Although it was not written my way, you hit the nail on the head.
Have you ever finished a day, looked around, and realized you did not do some of the most important things on your mind? You kept on meaning to get to it, but there just was not enough time!