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...business of medical repping, although infrequently scrutinized, is invariably seen as a negative in the public eye, somewhere between legislative logrolling and subsidizing Big Sugar. The unethical influencing of our prescribing, the corruption of the sacred relationship between doctor and patient, allegations of bribery, unnecessarily increasing the price of health-care - these are on the rep's rap sheet. Yet it's a perfectly legal profession. Here are three reasons...
...This year there was "wordfetti": pieces of cardboard, a bit smaller than calling cards, with the words CELEBRATE, LOVE, PEACE, PLAY and DANCE printed on them. On the back was the logo of Target, which also sponsored those glasses in the shape of a 2007, with the zeroes for eye holes (a clever design that will become obsolete in 2010). DiscoverCard had its brand on the ginchiest bit of couture, a fringed fleece boa, with jingle bells. Periodically, officials went into the crowd to distribute the yard-long sausage balloons bearing the Korbel name. (The ubiquitous rhinestone tiaras were...
...near New York City, we located all of the Metro North train stops out of the city then virtually navigated the route, seeing where each town was in relation to the rest, and comparing relative commutes. A quick lift of the rubber wheel and we get a bird's-eye view; press down again and we're back at street level...
Dancing! Feasting! Costuming! Masking! Barbara Ehrenreich, author of the bestselling Nickled and Dimed, turns her keen eye on the topic of group exuberance, in her forthcoming book Dancing in the Streets: A History of Collective Joy (Holt; January 10). Ehrenreich argues that Mardi Gras-type behavior is vital to human behavior, and that Americans just don't do it enough, even on Christmas and New Year's. TIME's Andrea Sachs spoke (exuberantly) with Ehrenreich...
...audience. For nearly two years, the accelerating Watergate scandals had polarized Washington, dominated news coverage and poisoned public discourse. Even to his loyal defenders, the increasingly embattled Nixon did not radiate trustworthiness and candor. On TV that August afternoon, Ford seemed the anti-Nixon: square-jawed, plainspoken, keeping steady eye contact with the camera. "My fellow Americans," he said in his reedy Midwestern tones, "our long national nightmare is over...