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...sound of Cash coming to grips with his impending death, then helping his audience to do the same. Despite Rubin’s minimalist production, the album has both the progression and the strength of a storm—and like a storm, desperation and fear shrouds its approach. “Help Me” is as subtle and as elegantly-orchestrated a cry of futility as Nick Drake’s “Cello Song,” all the more tragic for the Parkinson’s-induced trembling in Cash’s voice. This...

Author: By Nicholas K. Tabor, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: In Death, Johnny Fades to Black | 7/7/2006 | See Source »

...Clearly, the objective was to build support for the position of whoever was organizing each event, while taking potshots at any other approach. One House Republican admitted as much beforehand. Rep. Brian Bilbray, a California Republican, was part of the congressional panel at the San Diego event. In an interview with the San Diego Union-Tribune, Bilbray called the House hearings "a good way to highlight the problems with the Senate bill...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Let's Hold a Real Immigration Debate | 7/6/2006 | See Source »

...others have already created cow, sheep and pig cells genetically engineered to produce a particularly beneficial human protein, then cloned those cells to generate live animals able to make copious amounts of the target protein in their milk. It may be another 10 years or more before that approach yields anything safe and reliable enough to be used in real patients, and there is no guarantee that it will ever be successful. But as Wilmut points out, nobody thought Dolly was possible until she made history that warm July night 10 years...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Perils of Cloning | 7/5/2006 | See Source »

...Army have been using them since 2002. Lean is an outgrowth of the Toyota production system, developed in the 1930s, which focuses on increasing efficiency and reducing cycle time by eliminating waste. Six Sigma was first used on a wide scale by Motorola in the 1980s as an approach to improving quality through statistical measurements and benchmarking, Evans explains. Six Sigma entered the U.S. business lexicon in a big way in the 1990s when CEO Jack Welch embraced it at General Electric...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Lean and Mean | 7/5/2006 | See Source »

...will certainly remember how his provoking of previous crises eventually brought diplomatic gains rather than punishment; North Korea's 1998 missile tests, for example, brought direct talks for Kim with South Korea and U.S. Secretary of State Madeleine Albright. Even the Bush administration, which rejected the Clinton-era approach as rewarding North Korea's bad behavior, was forced to move in the same direction by joining the six-party process in 2002, after first spurning the idea of offering Pyongyang incentives to change its ways...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: North Korea's Missile Test: Diplomatic Arm-Twisting | 7/5/2006 | See Source »

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