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...Voters Coalition, insist bills like this are necessary to get states to move to optical scanning, even if they are understandably reluctant to trash their investments in DRE. McCrea calls that foot-dragging the electoral equivalent of "buying a fleet of Pintos whose gas tanks you later find out blow up on you, but insisting you're going to keep using them because you spent all that money on them...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Voting Out E-Voting Machines | 11/3/2007 | See Source »

...would need that perspective when she arrived at Hearst. Black had already proved herself; now she would have to prove that there was still life left in the old magazine industry. "It's time to blow the dust off the curtains at Hearst!" she announced at a management conference. And she did. Black launched O: The Oprah Magazine in 2000, which has generated $1.3 billion in ad revenue since then and all but invented a new category, the celebrity-driven lifestyle and self-help magazine...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Turning the Pages at Hearst | 11/2/2007 | See Source »

...Suresh Premachandran, an MP from the Tamil National Alliance, which is considered a proxy of the LTTE, told TIME the death of Tamilselvan will be a blow for the negotiation process. "It shows the Government is for a military solution. Tamilselvan was the leader of the political wing and involved in all rounds of negotiations, so when the Government targets him it is clear they do not want a political solution," Premachandran said...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sri Lanka Kills Rebel Leader | 11/2/2007 | See Source »

...chest pain, for example, but says it only bothers her when she's feeling tense or pressured - and not on the treadmill or climbing a flight of stairs - her doctor should interpret her anxiety as a genuine risk factor, says Brotman. "The trigger is emotional, and physicians tend to blow that off," he says...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Achy Breaky Heart | 11/1/2007 | See Source »

...Diwali and Bastille Day.” I read somewhere that Americans will shell out $5 billion on Halloween this year. Spending’s up more than 50% since 2005. But it’s still just chump change, compared to the $475 billion we’ll blow on Christmas. “Get back to me when Adams House has a ‘Sweet and Nasty’ Christmas pageant...

Author: By Daniel J. Mandel, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: The Emergence of the Dark, Red Undead | 10/31/2007 | See Source »

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