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Good luck with that. Even Sarkozy's opponents concede that his pragmatism and push to modernize France - just as millions of regular French voters have modernized their own lives - are a large part of his appeal. Time-honored formalities, and the type of scheming in smoke-filled back rooms that the Clearstream scandal conjures up, are increasingly irrelevant in a country that now embraces everything from McDonald's to reality TV. (See the top 10 political sex scandals...
...Sunday-night cartoon block Animation Domination. And there is one animator who dominates it: Seth MacFarlane, the writer - producer - voice actor who calls the toons on three of the four shows. It's a turnaround for MacFarlane; Fox canceled his Family Guy in 2002, then brought it back after it proved hugely popular on DVD. In 2005, Fox added MacFarlane's American Dad, a war-on-terrorism-era CIA spoof. This fall came The Cleveland Show, TV's unlikeliest spin-off since The Ropers, focused on Family Guy bit character Cleveland Brown. For 90 minutes a week, MacFarlane...
...starting with the heart bypass. Under the new system, a closely coordinated team of caregivers would be responsible for every stage of a bypass patient's treatment and recovery. The hospital would submit a single bill for all work and include a 90-day warranty. If a patient checked back in with a complication like a postsurgical infection, that work would be on Geisinger's dime. "We'll do it right, or we won't send a bill" was how Steele put it to his staff...
...society. Women will soon constitute a majority of the workforce; they earn 57% of college degrees; they make 75% of buying decisions in the home. At the same time, the poll found that women are not terribly concerned with equality issues, nor are they patting themselves on the back for their pre-eminence--they are simply dealing with the often bewildering changes and uncertainty in our economy as breadwinners, spouses, mothers and daughters. It's not the anachronistic battle of the sexes anymore but how we all--women and men--grapple with a new economy and new era. I suppose...
While our story looks to the future, it also harks back to the special women's issue we did in 1972, in which we explored--excuse the phrase--the New Woman. (That phrase was more than 100 years old at the time.) As Nancy Gibbs notes in her smart story--which is accompanied by an extensive, graphic look at the poll--there were no female Supreme Court Justices or Cabinet members or network anchors in 1972. Part of our package revisits some of the women we profiled back then, including one who worked for years as a welder...