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...until 2019 to maintain its water infrastructure, according to one Congressional Budget Office study--that's almost twice the $21.6 billion invested in 1999. "We've got thick pipes from the 19th century becoming obsolete at the same time as thinner ones laid after World War II," says Peter Cook, executive director of the National Association of Water Companies. "If we don't invest more, we're going to face a real crisis...
...superwoman†who wants to achieve everything, and the accomplished woman who prefers to stay at home to raise a family. The superwoman intends to become a successful full-time professional in a career she loves, make money, get married, raise a family, travel, cook, host parties, and still find time to go to yoga on Sundays. The full-time mother is equally well-educated, talented, ambitious, and perhaps will also pursue graduate degrees, but she wishes to channel her time and resources into motherhood, often relying on the financial success of her husband (in a heteronormative model...
...Vietnam." She and her fellow authors attribute the prevalence of mental problems to the stress of guerrilla warfare, the chronic threat of roadside bombs and improvised explosive devices and multiple tours of duty. "A lot of veterans feel they were on the front lines even if they were a cook or a driver," says Seal...
This week's conviction of Lewis "Scooter" Libby for perjury will surely give the CIA some measure of vindication. Libby was a key figure in the White House's campaign to pressure the CIA to cook the books on Iraqi WMD. And, although he was not tried for it, Libby certainly was at the center of the campaign to expose and smear one of its former employees, Valerie Plame, and her husband Joe Wilson. Libby is the kind of political operative the CIA is more than happy to see go down. However, it's going to be a Pyrrhic victory...
...radically new way of thinking about cooking because it's so very old. But I was surprised to learn that Café 150 was the brainchild not of some anticorporate artisan but of John Dickman, 51, Google's food-service manager. Dickman not only worked for 14 years at the food giant Marriott--he even trained flight attendants to cook plane food. I was curious how he had created such a radical restaurant...