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...seller is the latest personal-finance book for women that devotes just as much ink to analyzing our psyches as it does to building our nest eggs. Women are "voluntarily committing financial suicide," Orman writes, because our "inner nurturer" gives too much away. In Women Don't Ask, Linda Babcock and Sara Laschever inform us that the key to getting a raise is overcoming "personal entitlement issues." And even though Jean Chatzky, an occasional TIME contributor, admits in her book Make Money Not Excuses that fewer than 5% of Americans--women and men in equal measure--are compulsive shoppers...
...supported the war in Afghanistan and was considering going back to the corps until the Bush Administration started rattling the saber for Iraq. Now if people ask me how I can be a marine and not support the war, I can say, "Ask General Newbold the same question." Vincent Babcock Sergeant, U.S.M.C. Marquette, Michigan...
...VINCENT BABCOCK SERGEANT, U.S.M.C. Marquette, Mich...
Armed with family papers and genealogies, Babcock has tilted happily over weightier questions against colonial historians ignorant of the latest discoveries in barnography. "We found a 16th century French barn in Rensselaer County, N.Y., last year," he says. "That's a century before the experts say the place was settled. All they know is what they read. I know what I find. Barns always tell the truth...
...drone of rush-hour traffic is spilling from the parkway. Nightfall approaches, and in the chill air Babcock slowly begins to pack his tools. "I must have given a hundred talks," he remarks. "Each time I say the same thing: save the barns! People listen, but they don't act." On the Baker place, the sheep barn's rectangular skeleton now glows softly, a spare Doric temple in the twilight. Babcock touches the smoothly hewn frame with a hammer-size hand. "Look how carefully they worked. They thought they were building for the future." He brightens into a smile...