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...know it's surprising to see a different gas price every time you stop at a Texonobil. It's not like every time you go to Safeway, jujubes jump up or down 50%. But that probably explains why there aren't billion-dollar multinational conglomerates that drill for jujubes. Though, to be honest, I think that would be a wonderful world...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Relief From Painful Gas | 6/4/2001 | See Source »

...Environment. Remember what Bush Senior called you? Ozone Man. Well, now is the time for Ozone Man to come out of the woods. Sure, Bush said yesterday that he was going to spend $5 billion sprucing up the national parks, but Americans only know that he wants to drill in Alaska, build hundreds of power plants, and keep his oil business cronies in the black. You shouldn't overtly criticize him, but instead talk about the virtues and practicalities of energy conservation. It's good to be green these days...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: So, Al, What Have You Been Doing Lately? | 6/1/2001 | See Source »

...birthright to fill up the Silverado, put a cold one in the cupholder, crank up the radio and drive off into the wide open spaces. Mass transit is for pointy-headed Easterners, and every room should be as cool as a meat locker. Don't have enough energy? Drill for it like a crazed dentist. If that doesn't do the trick, let's blast for coal and rebuild Three Mile Island. These are people from out West, where there's land, lots of land under sunny skies above, and no one will be fenced...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Waste Not, Want Not--Not! | 5/21/2001 | See Source »

...response, Stiglbauer hired a gruff former New York police detective as her disciplinarian in chief. Her staff hauled the parents of truants into family court. And once kids were in her grasp, Stiglbauer never let them go. She "invited" struggling students to intense early-morning, after-school and summer drill sessions. But the bonus classes became so popular that close to half of Hand's students now attend school virtually year-round--half of those by choice...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Middle Schools Of The Year: Let Them Lift Us Up: WINNER Hand Middle School/Columbia, S.C. | 5/21/2001 | See Source »

John Henry Days indeed tackles a great amount of material but without any signs of overreaching or strain. The novel ripples outward from a central event: a three-day festival in Talcott, W.Va., commemorating the legendary black railroad worker who outhammered a steam drill but died in victory. Many of the ballads about John Henry place the epic battle he waged with the machine in nearby Big Bend Tunnel, and Talcott residents hope that John Henry Days will become an annual and tourist-friendly attraction...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: A Ballad for All Times | 5/21/2001 | See Source »

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