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...most people assume--I do, certainly--that someone making an extraordinarily large contribution is going to get some kind of an extraordinary return for it. I think that is a pervasive assumption. And...there is certainly an appearance of, call it an attenuated corruption, if you will, that large contributors are simply going to get better service, whatever that service may be, from a politician than the average contributor, let alone no contributor...
While a mother's behavior is very likely one component in the development of anorexia, says TIME medical contributor Dr. Ian Smith, it's far from the only influence. "Girls and women at risk for anorexia have a distorted self-image - and that image can be affected by wide variety of factors," he says. "The media pitches in to create an unrealistic, perfect image, and so do peer pressure and various parental issues." Anorexia, Dr. Smith points out, has a wide range of causes, and the breaking point varies from person to person. A nervous or particularly invested mother could...
...does this mean that the Daddy Warbucks and George Costanzas of the world have to take up yoga and go vegan? Not exactly. "This is a study in a good journal," notes TIME medical contributor Dr. Ian Smith. "But it's just an association - this does not show a cause-and-effect relationship. There are several reasons why people go bald, be they genetic, lifestyle or dermatological. Based on this type of study, bald people shouldn't get crazy about coronary risks." Yet the relationship shouldn't be seen as mere coincidence. Baldness and heart disease are both associated with...
John McCain is to campaign-finance reform what John Brown was to the abolition of slavery: the guy with the ax. So what happens if you have to swing it at yourself? McCain's services on behalf of a major contributor gave an opening last week to George W. Bush, the man who has benefited most, dollarwise, from things as they are. McCain is being asked to explain why he wrote letters to various federal agencies in support of 15 of his top campaign donors. "Somebody who makes campaign finance an issue has got to be consistent," Bush declared...
...fracas here, but are the candidates all that different?'" Chief political correspondent Eric Pooley and national correspondent Karen Tumulty address the question in a behind-the-scenes look at the Democratic running men, while senior editor Nancy Gibbs essays about the nature of post-ideological campaigning, and contributor Steve Lopez casts an amusing eye on the candidates in his campaign diary...