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Rachel Uchitel: Tiger Woods' Alleged Mistress

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A head-turning nightclub promoter who first drew notice after the tragedy of Sept. 11 is back in the news — but she’s attracting a very different kind of attention. According to a claim in the National Enquirer, Rachel Uchitel has been having an affair with golf star Tiger Woods since June. Uchitel and Woods have denied the claim but have been unable to prevent widespread Internet chatter, which speculates that the jet-setting 34-year-old was the source of a fight between Woods and his wife Elin Nordegren that led to the golfer’s crashing his SUV outside his Florida mansion early on Nov. Read More...

Sandwiches: Essay by Mimi Sheraton

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You are getting a free preview of a TIME Magazine article from our archive. Many of our articles are reserved for subscribers only. Want access to more subscriber-only content, click here to subscribe. “Just a sandwich” may be a standard reply to the what-would-you-like-to-eat question, but clearly in America there is no “just” about a sandwich. Nowhere else in the world are sandwiches taken so seriously, and nowhere else do they make up so large and diverse a culinary discipline. Read More...

Science: At Etah | TIME

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For the Eskimos of Etah, Greenland, the gods still tread the earth. They had seen white men before but never any such as those who last week enabled them to talk to one another at a distance by means of curious, bell-ringing contraptions connected by wires; who showed them silent, black-and-white scenes of people walking, gesticulating, moving their mouths as in speech, upon a white sheet spread in a dark place; who demonstrated a still stranger spark-spitting apparatus they called a “radio,” by which the white men said they talked with their kind far south in the U. Read More...