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...heart of "economic security" as a political strategy should be a drastically revised social safety net for American workers. By offering universal health insurance and government-subsidized pension reform, Washington would relieve U.S. companies of those two burdens. Also helpful would be wage insurance, which would soften the blow for laid-off workers forced to take lower-paying jobs, and a turbo-charged government effort to promote new industries (like alternative fuels) to provide high-paying jobs. These ideas would cost money and demand higher taxes, which horrifies the economic-freedom crowd. They also don't address foreign ownership...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: It's Economic Security, Stupid | 3/5/2006 | See Source »

...least half-insane resistance fighter known only as V, whose face was permanently hidden behind a grinning mask that, if you're English, you recognize as the face of Guy Fawkes. (Who--again, if you're English--you know as the proto-terrorist who tried and failed to blow up Parliament...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Mad Man In The Mask | 3/5/2006 | See Source »

...Last week: 4) Keeping a cat in your room. Who isn't these days? 2 (Last week: -) Zithromax, a.k.a. Z-PAX. LA stars and Leverett slugs alike love this flu antibiotic for its slimming side effects. 3 (Last week: -) ConnectU.com. Will blow up any day now. 4 (Last week: 1) Karl Malone. 5 (Last week: 2) Wondering at what point you're supposed to stop doing drugs. Is it when you graduate...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: FM Top 5 | 3/1/2006 | See Source »

Armed with a comprehensive knowledge of the Hardy Boys canon and a working understanding of Cam Jansen, I started putting the wild adventures of teenage sleuth Fred Flight to paper. In one chapter, a ninja star ices Fred’s friend in the jungles; in another, terrorists blow up a gas station as Fred narrowly rolls away to safety...

Author: By David Zhou, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Is Michael Crichton A Guilty Pleasure? Or Just A Pleasure? | 3/1/2006 | See Source »

...much pain a doctor is allowed to inflict on a fetus. Section 2 of the Humane Slaughter Act, used to protect animals, states that a method of slaughter is deemed legally humane only if “all animals are rendered insensible to pain by a single blow or gunshot or an electrical chemical, or other means that is rapid and effective, before being shackled, hoisted, thrown, cast or cut.” While the laws of the land ensure that animals are not subjected to unnecessary amounts of pain, there are still people who believe that a doctor...

Author: By Loui Itoh, | Title: Not a Time to Kill | 3/1/2006 | See Source »

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