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This story explained??more to my wife about who I am than did my 30 years of trying. Service members have faith in the core values of the military: duty, loyalty, honor, selflessness and courage. That faith sustains them as they answer the call to do what must be done. They also have faith that no casualties are meaningless, wasted or ignored. Perez's sacrifice and commitment did not go unnoticed by her comrades-in-arms...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Oct. 30, 2006 | 10/22/2006 | See Source »

...Einstein explained??it a century ago and won a Nobel Prize. Now we make use of it every day--inefficiently. It's called the photoelectric effect: light can produce electricity. Electricity produces light. But solar energy still costs more than the fossil- fuel variety. And our lightbulbs and fluorescent tubes waste half their energy...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Let There Be Nano | 12/5/2005 | See Source »

...that the President had "turned thumbs down only on the specific plan of revision suggested by the Commission," that he was still open-minded on other proposals. The White House endeavor to make President Hoover seem less Dry was carried further when Secretary Walter Newton assembled newsmen and solemnly explained???anonymously?that the President had been "misrepresented," that the door was not closed to other Wet ideas. Joining in the effort to "explain" the President's position was his good friend, Journalist Mark Sullivan, who wrote this asininity: "A [President] cannot well be in a position of enforcing an existing...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: An Open Mind | 2/2/1931 | See Source »

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