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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...with the hope that "the struggles still to come are fewer than those left behind." I believe that the vast majority of people realistically fear that mankind has a tremendous amount of killing and savagery ahead of us before we truly civilize ourselves. But let's hope you are correct...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Inbox | 12/6/2007 | See Source »

...front of me--the middle manager in the middle seat babbling into his BlackBerry. I'm happy that he just sold a gross of ball bearings in Shreveport, La., but the plane has landed, and I can hardly hear the flight attendant announce, "Welcome to San Francisco, where the correct local time...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Making Holiday Travel a Little Less Horrid | 12/6/2007 | See Source »

Note to airlines: correct local time is the only time I require. How often do you stop someone on the street and ask for the incorrect time in some distant city...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Making Holiday Travel a Little Less Horrid | 12/6/2007 | See Source »

...Shambaugh is Mary Poppins, then Klein is Scrooge. Examining the same evidence of inequities against women, as well as against minorities and gays, Klein's politically correct treatise comes to a diametrically opposite conclusion. Her data essentially find a malign plot by those in power. For many in those oppressed groups, she maintains, work "is a constantly dripping pipe of daily indignities that cumulatively lead to feelings of isolation and distrust--and ultimately to extraordinarily high rates of voluntary turnover." It's hard not to conclude that the truth falls somewhere between the poles these two books represent...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business Books | 12/6/2007 | See Source »

...friends? Boyle: “I think it probably has something to do with Ec 10, a class I’ve never taken.” Owings: “Because she has to have some way to afford her dream car.” The correct answers: 1. Paramaribo 2. Lake Baikal 3. Appoggiatura 4. Pig 5./6. How the heck should we know...

Author: By Emma R. Coleman, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: P.B.K. IQ | 12/5/2007 | See Source »

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