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...have had the cowboy. We don't need the maverick sheriff with his "have gun, will travel" foreign policy. Our problems cannot be solved in a quick-draw contest. It is time for all Americans to accept personal responsibility for our part in what is happening to our country. We must vote and then pay attention to what our elected officials do. We all need to become better crisis managers of our own personal lives and finances, and of the natural resources of our world. Linda Bracken, Wagoner, Okla...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Inbox | 10/23/2008 | See Source »

Fussell's more focused book limits itself to American beef, but somehow feels more expansive and ambitious. In puncturing mythology of the West, she pits The Cowboy against The Machine: On one side are the old-timers, so in love with nostalgic ideals of land and horizon and freedom that they fail to realize that the cattle industry is a rich man's game, made for those on the other side with the money, fuel and machinery that go into making cattle so profitable. Like Beef, and many books before it, Raising Steaks reminds us that as tasty as burgers...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A History of Beef, Times Two | 10/22/2008 | See Source »

Queensland's chief wildlife manager, Mike Devery, defended the costly operation, saying the animals were listed as vulnerable under the state's Nature Conservation Act, which labels crocodiles over 13 feet long as "iconic." But the kid-glove treatment outraged many locals, including Federal Parliamentarian Bob Katter, a cowboy-hatted, blunt-spoken cattle rancher whose 218,000 square-mile electoral district is home to thousands of wild crocodiles...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Going Soft on Crocodile Crime | 10/22/2008 | See Source »

...have had the cowboy. We don't need the maverick sheriff with his "have gun, will travel" foreign policy. Our problems cannot be solved in a quick-draw contest. It is time for all Americans to accept personal responsibility for our part in what is happening. We must vote and then pay attention to what our elected officials do. We all need to become better crisis managers of our own personal lives and finances, and of the natural resources of our world. Linda Bracken, WAGONER, OKLA...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Depression Hurts | 10/21/2008 | See Source »

...room is also a veritable gallery of mavericks, including pictures of Tom Cruise in Top Gun and Dallas forward Dirk Nowitzki, a movie poster from the Mel Gibson/Jodie Foster/James Garner Western and a pic of Palin's ultimate maverick, John McCain, in a cowboy...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Palin as President Interactive | 10/20/2008 | See Source »

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