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...amount, one not dependent on the whims of the market. Eric Saunders Philadelphia Bush misled our country into going to war when he claimed that Iraq had weapons of mass destruction. Now he is trying to mislead us into thinking that Social Security is in crisis and needs a drastic overhaul. When he tells young people that Social Security won't be there for them when they reach retirement age, he just might be right, but only because he has sabotaged a successful program that merely needed a few adjustments. Linda McLennan South Lake Tahoe, California...
Bush misled our country into going to war when he claimed that Iraq had weapons of mass destruction. Now he is trying to mislead us into thinking that Social Security is in crisis and needs a drastic overhaul. When he tells young people that Social Security won't be there for them when they reach retirement age, he just might be right, but if so, it will be only because he has sabotaged a successful program that merely needed a few adjustments...
When he proposed his set-point theory eight years ago, Lykken came to a drastic conclusion. "It may be that trying to be happier is as futile as trying to be taller," he wrote. He has since come to regret that sentence. "I made a dumb statement in the original article," he tells TIME. "It's clear that we can change our happiness levels widely--up or down...
...move to fiction, though drastic, seemed natural to Nye. “It’s always fun to tell a story, and it also allowed me to use the other side of the brain,” he says. “Sometimes I would work on an academic book during the day and turn to fiction in the evening for relaxation...
Fact: For a few seconds last Thursday, Kristi’s facebook.com profile listed her as “single” due to a programming glitch. After pacifying her boyfriend, placing calls to family and friends urging them not to jump to drastic conclusions and sending a mass e-mail to members of The Seneca, who had already begun stockpiling Kleenex and bee-lining it to Lowell, Kristi sent a politely irate e-mail to Mark Zuckerberg and the error was promptly corrected...