Word: contributor
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...Mike Allen, a TIME contributor, is the author of "Mike's Must Reads" at Politico.com...
...reviewed every draft, and writing has been a very emotional and therapeutic process,” the student said last night. “I wanted to show a different perspective and the long-term effects of dealing with sexual assault.”Another contributor wrote about an experience closer to home.The student, a sophomore in Dunster, said she had been sexually assaulted by a stranger last summer at a job in the Northeast, and is now working through the repercussions. “It’s definitely affected me long-term,” she said...
...eggs. Women are "voluntarily committing financial suicide," Orman writes, because our "inner nurturer" gives too much away. In Women Don't Ask, Linda Babcock and Sara Laschever inform us that the key to getting a raise is overcoming "personal entitlement issues." And even though Jean Chatzky, an occasional TIME contributor, admits in her book Make Money Not Excuses that fewer than 5% of Americans--women and men in equal measure--are compulsive shoppers, she devotes 25 of the book's 261 pages to making women feel guilty for every nonessential thing they...
...deal has implications far beyond Texas. The Lone Star State is No. 7 in the world for greenhouse gases (emitting more CO2 than Britain), and TXU is the state's biggest corporate contributor. Those 11 coal-fired plants would have thrown off 78 tons of carbon dioxide a year--double the savings expected from California's Clean Cars legislation, passed last year. The buyout firms promised not only to halt eight of the Texas plants but also to terminate plans for coal-fired operations in New Jersey, Virginia and Maryland--a recognition that momentum is growing in Washington for legislation...
Poor Wikipedia. Professional Golfer Fuzzy Zoeller is suing one of its contributors for a defamatory cyber-attack. And last year, television host and comedian Stephen Colbert urged his audience to vandalize a Wikipedia entry about elephants to prove the point that in a model where any user can edit encyclopedia entries, those entries are only as good as their source. Take the case of retired journalist John Seigenthaler, a former assistant to Attorney General Robert Kennedy, who was wrongfully accused of involvement in the assassination of Robert and John Kennedy by an anonymous Wikipedia contributor in 2005. Given the controversy...