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...right to avoid asking for pain from audiences. It almost never works. But in this case it might have. By offering up the dessert of giving everyone a mutual fund holder, he tacitly undermined his own efforts to make the case that there's a crisis. How can you deploy mushroom-cloud words like "collapse" and then offer free candy? Besides, at some point Bush will have to start talking about the benefit cuts and big-time borrowing that are an inevitable result of diverting revenue from the system. Why not do it now? At a background briefing for reporters...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: State of the Union: Big Themes, Small Details | 2/3/2005 | See Source »

...join the Guard. But there is another factor in the case of young people right out of high school: parents often steer their kids away from the military. "Mom and Dad understand they're going to go right into basic training," Jones says, "and then be eligible to deploy right away." Even if parents don't object, he says, "it's human nature to flee from risk. It takes a special type of person to join during this time...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Where Are the New Recruits? | 1/10/2005 | See Source »

Seligman's biggest recommendation for lasting happiness is to figure out (courtesy of his website, reflectivehappiness.com your strengths and find new ways to deploy them. Increasingly, his work, done in collaboration with Christopher Peterson at the University of Michigan, has focused on defining such human strengths and virtues as generosity, humor, gratitude and zest and studying how they relate to happiness. "As a professor, I don't like this," Seligman says, "but the cerebral virtues--curiosity, love of learning--are less strongly tied to happiness than interpersonal virtues like kindness, gratitude and capacity for love...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The New Science of Happiness | 1/9/2005 | See Source »

...Observers believe that far more troops are needed to avert a further tragedy than have so far been pledged. The African Union has been authorized to deploy 3,320 peacekeeping troops by February, but even that deployment is running behind schedule - less than a third of that number now patrol Darfur, an area the size of Texas - and the soldiers' rules of engagement may be too narrow to make their intervention meaningful. Privately, officers predict that the number of peacekeepers will grow significantly, possibly to as high as 20,000. International aid organizations also complain of a shortage of personnel...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Caught in Darfur's Crossfire | 12/14/2004 | See Source »

...alone just to buy government licenses - in 3G phone systems that use conventional arc designs. As operators struggle to make those four-year-old investments pay off, they're not about to switch to ArrayComm. Although ArrayComm was able to license its technology to Chinese and Japanese operators that deploy a more compatible mobile-phone system, Western operators have declined. So ArrayComm is selling to wireless Internet providers like Sydney's Personal Broadband Australia (in which ArrayComm is a partial owner) that are in various stages of covering cities like Sydney, Melbourne and Brisbane...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Future Focus | 12/6/2004 | See Source »

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