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...White House's Roosevelt Room is wired for PowerPoint presentations, and most officials also bring handouts when they brief George W. Bush and his inner circle. But Budget Director Josh Bolten, who has spent months walking the President through a problem that could dramatically affect his legacy, sticks to colorful charts on old-fashioned easels. The lights stay on, so nobody dozes off, and there's no paper to wander through. It's dense material, after all. "I keep everyone's attention focused on what I want them to focus on," Bolten said...
...your partner, according to a survey by a team of Italian psychologists. Its poll of 523 couples, ages 18 to 65, found that those with TVs in the bedroom had sex half as often--four times a month vs. eight--as those without. What the couples watched seemed to affect passion as well. Violent shows and reality TV dampened romance; news programs, for some reason, seemed to encourage lovemaking...
...that essential first step. Yet without it, monkeys pounding away on typewriters have as great a chance of writing the next great American novel as we do of making the next Michelangelo. Certainly, much of our world is determined, molded by forces completely beyond our control. Our chances of affecting meaningful change may be extremely slim or nonexistent altogether. Nevertheless, we forfeit any such opportunities if we abandon our hope in their existence. I often think back to the MLKs of our history—mere mortals who lived in eras of similar, implicit hopelessness—and wonder what...
...cuts to student-loan programs have stirred controversy largely because, according to some, they account for a too large a portion of the greater $40,000 budget cut, which would also affect Medicare, Medicaid, and other programs...
...Bush administration indicated last week that it would roll back one of its proposed restrictions on foreign-born researchers, although many of the remaining regulations could still affect scholars at Harvard...