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...disasters. Several communities accepted, and the government, in partnership with the state, bought back 25,000 properties. The thousands of acres left behind were converted into wetlands, which act like a sponge in storms. In 1995 the floods came again. "And guess what?" says Witt. "We never spent one dime on responding. Nobody lost everything they worked...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Why We Don't Prepare for Disaster | 8/20/2006 | See Source »

...only a small percentage of movie profits, especially on DVDs. "If we wanted to control our own destiny, we'd have to make our own movies," says Michael Helfant, president of Marvel Studios. That was a leap Marvel's risk-averse board was loath to make on its own dime...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Marvel Unmasked | 8/7/2006 | See Source »

...ocean liner” in trying to highlight the difficulties in changing the system’s course. Nolan has argued that the system is small—with only one high school—and that it can be “turned around on a dime...

Author: By Paras D. Bhayani, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: The Statistics of the EQA Audit Report | 7/28/2006 | See Source »

...really brain surgery. They don't crack open your skull; they just drill a couple of small holes to put the wires through. Tiny holes. Itsy-bitsy holes. Teensy-weensy little holes. The propaganda they give you when you sign up for the operation describes the holes as "dime-sized." That took me aback. The dime, there's no denying, is a seriously undersized coin. But frankly, I wasn't thinking coins at all. I was thinking grains of sand. A dime is huge! The hospital printout of all the things you can't do afterward describes it as "major...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Yes, It Really Is Brain Surgery | 7/16/2006 | See Source »

...unlike in the Vietnam war, images of battlefield dead, even when available, rarely make it into the American media, in part because of concerns that they would seem intrusive or distasteful. We will spend millions for pictures of Angelina Jolie's baby, but we hesitate to part with a dime of audience capital for the biggest story...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: You Can't Bury the Truth | 7/16/2006 | See Source »

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