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...Make sure you take your malaria tablets. Accept no dares (or double dares) to forgo these pills. They may give you extremely realistic nightmares, but isn’t that better than the alternative? And while we’re on the subject of health, it can’t hurt to get vaccinations for measles, hepatitis A and B, typhoid, and rabies. After all, UHS is just a short walk away from your office...

Author: By Gulus Emre | Title: Drew Goes on Safari | 10/14/2009 | See Source »

...describe how you've made some sacrifices in the way that you live? I stopped flying. I live in a much smaller house. I no longer even accept a paycheck. I just pay my expenses out of our campaign funds. I don't own a car. You may give something up, but in a way you get much more back in return for living a simpler, more responsible life. (Read "Why New York City Is Greener Than Vermont...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Environmental Activist Mike Roselle | 10/12/2009 | See Source »

...people love a good dictator - or at least get over their hatred of one pretty quickly - provided that the dictator doesn't put up too many pictures of himself. We instinctively object to new forms of paternalism, but we also quickly accept them: laws requiring seat belts and motorcycle helmets, forced retirement savings through Social Security, waiting periods for marriage and gun licenses. Though you're not hurting anyone else, you can't commit suicide, have sex with your dog, drink in public, do drugs, be a prostitute, swim at a beach without a lifeguard, eat unpasteurized cheese...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Tough-Love Dictator of My Dreams | 10/12/2009 | See Source »

...Other opponents argue that the program flies in the face of France's egalitarian ideals regarding education - that students be taught that they're equal citizens regardless of their background and they should accept the responsibilities that go along with equality under the law. "We teach students, educate them and raise them in school, but we don't pay them," says Albert-Jean Mougin, vice-president of the union representing teachers at middle schools and high schools. "We mustn't turn education into a commodity, nor turn accepting responsibilities into transactions between students and educators...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Should Students Be Paid to Do Well in School? | 10/12/2009 | See Source »

...decision had been made to give Rose Garden remarks by Obama, and shortly afterwards, news leaked out that Obama would agree to fly to Oslo to accept the award on Dec. 10. The task fell to Obama's two top speechwriters, Jon Favreau and Ben Rhodes, to craft Obama's words, which had to strike a delicate balance; they needed to both seize the moment, when the world would want to hear from him, while heading off the inevitable criticism that Obama was being rewarded prematurely, for rhetoric, not action. Not only did he say he was "surprised and deeply...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Obama's Surprising Nobel Wake-Up Call | 10/10/2009 | See Source »

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