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...that the Millennium Development Goals are to cut extreme poverty, hunger and disease by 2015 [March 24]. Cutting poverty and hunger means more people consuming. Cutting disease means more people. Working toward these goals is meaningless as long as we do not reduce world population. People need to have fewer babies. Anything else produces an endless fight with no chance of winning. Rodger Skidmore, Sarasota, Florida...
...times. It follows the closest in the sport's history and is the first to be contested under new rules that are helping to produce some spectacular racing. In the crash-laced opener in scorching conditions in Melbourne, just seven of the 22 drivers finished the race. There were fewer mishaps a week later in Sepang, Malaysia, where 17 drivers made it to the end, but the racing remained fierce and unpredictable. The key is the abolition of driver aids that have worked to neutralize some drivers' superior skills. If the first two races are any guide, 2008 will...
...prime time (boosted by several presidential debates) beat Fox among 25-to-54-year-olds for the first time since 2001. (CNN and TIME are owned by Time Warner.) Maybe even more galling, the network has lately faded in the ephemeral category of buzz. MSNBC--with far fewer viewers--has been the political-media obsession of the 2008 primary, largely because of feuds between the Clinton campaign and the network for its perceived pro-Obama bias...
...course, every change that Starbucks has made over the past few years--automated espresso machines, preground coffee, drive-throughs, fewer soft chairs and less carpeting--was made for a reason: to smooth operations or boost sales, two inescapable goals for a publicly traded company. Those may have been the right choices at the time, Schultz wrote, but together they ultimately diluted the coffee-centric experience. "We want to have the courage to do the things that support the core purpose and the reason for being and not veer off and get caught up in chasing revenue, because long-term value...
...primaries end, that neither Obama nor Clinton is viable. Let's also assume-and this may be a real stretch-that such elders are strong and smart enough to act. All they'd have to do would be to convince a significant fraction of their superdelegate friends, maybe fewer than 100, to announce that they were taking a pass on the first ballot at the Denver convention, which would deny the 2,025 votes necessary to Obama or Clinton. What if they then approached Gore and asked him to be the nominee, for the good of the party-and suggested...