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...worth of payroll-tax cuts from the stimulus package. Obama isn't sending us one-time rebate checks. Reason: his goal is to jump-start consumer spending, and research has shown we're more likely to save money rather than spend it when we get it in a big chunk. Instead, Obama made sure the tax cuts will be paid out through decreased withholding, so our regular paychecks will grow a bit and we'll be less likely to notice the windfall. The idea, an aide explains, is to manipulate us into spending the extra cash...
...decision to cut off U.S. food aid has angered some officers, sources say. A chunk of that aid was diverted by the military for sale in private markets, which have become increasingly important in feeding the population. So halting aid not only risks another humanitarian disaster in the North - Kim presided over a famine that killed nearly a million North Koreans in the 1990s - but also reduces corrupt officers' incomes...
...wounds: "Shrapnel wounds almost always look like someone took a jagged shovel and dug a chunk of flesh out of the body, then filled it in awkwardly with hairless, discolored skin that shouldn't be on a human being. Burn wounds are smoothly hideous, like the skin was turned into peanut butter and then spread in stretched, uneven dollops on the body. Or maybe you come back missing a finger or your face, or the whole or parts of your limbs. Maybe your eyes are gone...
...Wouldn't Moondance with Him Re 10 questions with Van Morrison [March 9]: It's disenchanting to have spent a chunk of your life admiring and being moved by someone's creative work and then discover that the person who created the work isn't nearly so likable. Asked "Are there any musicians or groups today that excite you?" Morrison responds, "No. Absolutely not. It's all been done, you know?" In that and other responses to TIME's questions, Morrison comes off like a bitter old man - not the soulful troubadour I imagined him to be. Holley Aufdemorte, Murrells...
Then there's the revival's one major innovation: two songs, and a good chunk of the dialogue in several scenes, are done in Spanish. This, the creators tell us, is an attempt to acknowledge the show's multicultural theme more forcefully and to make the show more "realistic." It's a worthy sentiment and less of a distraction than I'd feared; enough English is tossed in to keep the Anglo customers from drifting off in confusion, and I, for one, do not miss the English lyrics to "I Feel Pretty." Still, it seems like a gimmick: "realism...