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...Rather, the new reports clarify the false pretenses under which the administration has presented the issue: They reveal the chain of complicity for specific abuses leads very directly to the highest levels of government. This should come as little shock by now, since a recurring theme of the current administration’s abuses has been the irresponsible expansion of centralized executive power—a propensity for legalistic avoidance of checks and balances that often amounts to changing the rules of the game...
...really was going to sell my chain, I didn't want to do it at some seedy pawnshop or through an infomercial company. It turns out a lot of people feel the same way. Gold parties, at which friends gather over drinks after raiding their senile mom's drawers for heirlooms to melt down, have become this recession's dance marathons. I called January Thomas, who just quit her sales job in Michigan to run her new company, My Gold Party mygoldparty.com) She sent me a $700 kit with a jeweler's loupe, a scale and a machine that tests...
After everyone left, I put my chain on the scale. It's only 12 karat, but it could be smelted down for $265. I'm wearing it right now. At least until my wife notices...
...following our own advice. Time Inc. is the industry leader in sustainable development, and we are the first U.S. publisher to measure the carbon footprint of our entire supply-and-disposal chain, from logging operations to landfill. We have increased the percentage of our paper that comes from sustainably managed forests, from 25% to 69%. We have asked our paper companies to reduce CO2 emissions at least 20% by the year 2012. And we're co-sponsoring a campaign called Remix to promote the recycling of our magazines. These efforts have been led by Time Inc. CEO Ann Moore...
...American capitalistic market? JL: Well the first question is: What is authenticity? Authenticity is a function of time and place, so what’s really interesting is that American Chinese food has become its own thing. If you go to South Korea, there’s actually a chain of South Korean American Chinese restaurants. They even have the take-out boxes. So it has evolved into its own set of dishes and expectations because that’s what people want. Food is all relative. We think of tempura as Japanese but it’s actually from...