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The bodybuilding championship that launched Arnold Schwarzenegger marks its 61st year of competition on Oct. 24, 2009
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Dallas' New Performing Arts Center
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Strays to the Rescue
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40 Years of Monty Python
The groundbreaking British comedy troupe is honored in New York as a six-hour documentary about the group airs on the Independent Film Channel
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Harvest Season in the White House Garden
The veggies, berries and herbs culled from the south grounds make their way to the table of the First Family — and serve as an example for the rest of the nation on the importance of a healthy diet
Photographs by Brooks Kraft / Corbis for TIME
A Portrait of Italians in America
The descendants of immigrants from Ponza, Italy, remain united by a love for the island their ancestors left in the 1920s
Photographs by Carlotta Maitland Smith
The Obamas Select Art for the White House
A list of some 45 artworks chosen by the Obamas for the family quarters of the White House and the West and East Wings was made public in early October. It's a wide-ranging and sometimes surprising assortment
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TIME imagines in photo-illustrations what would happen if award academies
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Eight Months of Obama's Diplomacy
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The Shifting Sands of Xinjiang
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