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...Cost-Benefit Analysis "Nation building" showed that the U.S. faces some high bills for upgrading infrastructure for mass transit, dams, railways, water, airports and roads [May 28]. Instead of focusing on its own needs, the U.S. thought it wise to increase its deficit in order to destroy the infrastructure of another country. One wonders how the real dangers from failing infrastructure compare with those imagined from Saddam Hussein. Are not the expected benefits from improved effectiveness preferable to the results of the endless wasting of money and lives? Yannis Athanassopoulos, ATHENS...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Honoring Lives Lost | 6/12/2007 | See Source »

...oppose such research, which is anathema to their pro-life supporters. As Brownback said during the Senate's April vote on the issue, "This would say we can treat humans at the youngest age of their life continuum as property and that we will use Federal taxpayer dollars to destroy them and to do research on them...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Deja Vu for a Bush Stem Cell Veto | 6/7/2007 | See Source »

Hang around Oakmont long enough, and you will hear a jarring refrain: "We like to punish the members and destroy their guests." Consider this guest duly destroyed. Starting June 14, Oakmont will torture a more skilled set of duffers: Tiger Woods, Phil Mickelson and the rest of the PGA players chasing the U.S. Open title. "I can't think of a hole where you go, 'Whew, I'm glad I'm on this one,'" says Brad Faxon, a 25-year tour veteran. "No golf club in America takes more pride in the difficulty of its course." Or, as an Oakmont...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Country's Most Devilish Golf Course | 6/7/2007 | See Source »

...would have much preferred to watch it on television, but instead I had to come out and see it with my own eyes." Haq picked up her mobile phone and scrolled to a popular text message making the rounds, a paraphrase of Euripides: "Those whom the gods would destroy they first make blind, paranoid and insane...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: On the Road with Pakistan's New Hero | 6/4/2007 | See Source »

...blend the two issues? He could take as his text this quote from God, straight from the Bible: "I establish my covenant with you, that never again shall all flesh be cut off by the waters of a flood, and never again shall there be a flood to destroy the earth...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sicko Is Socko | 5/19/2007 | See Source »

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