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During the past 50 years, transportation has become a patronage program in this country. In the name of keeping the Federal Government small (and political risks low), Congress earmarks pet projects and then allows states to spend the remaining federal funds any way they like. Without real oversight or clear...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: We've Come Undone | 8/9/2007 | See Source »

What do you like to do for fun? -Jessica Wright, Overland Park, Kans. [Laughs.] I watch TV, I read. I like to talk and have smart conversations. The worst thing you can do to me is talk about Britney Spears. If that is your lead in, I say go be...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: 10 Questions for Drew Carey | 8/9/2007 | See Source »

Pro or con, a filmgoer had to be diverted by the beautiful people in an Antonioni cast: stunners like Marcello Mastroianni, Jeanne Moreau, Alain Delon and especially Monica Vitti, the director's mistress and muse for five crucial films. These stars helped Antonioni make anxiety glamorous, passivity photogenic, entropy entertaining...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: When Antonioni Blew Up the Movies | 8/5/2007 | See Source »

I know we're supposed to ask serious, boring questions, but I'll try my luck: If you could be reborn as an ice cream flavor, what flavor would you be? -Ellizah Adam in Jakarta, IndonesiaI'd be pistachio. Definitely pistachio. I don't know why that's such a...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: 10 Questions for Sir Ben Kingsley | 8/2/2007 | See Source »

Uplift and empowerment are all well and good--girls kick ass; we get it--but showing that women can be as good as men without showing that they also can be as bad is condescending. And it's boring. As Nancy Miller, Saving Grace's creator, puts it, "Being tough...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Antiheroine Chic | 7/26/2007 | See Source »

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