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...site even streamlines the mailing process, providing a comprehensive list of local newspapers, and their contact information, according to the zip code you input. Simply check a few boxes, fill in your contact info, and the website prints out a perfectly prepared personal letter with your very own name on it—written by a Bush-Cheney campaign staffer. All you have to do is print, put a stamp on the envelope and mail it off. Or, if you are obscenely lazy, the site will even e-mail the letter for you. The whole process takes literally seconds, cunningly...

Author: By Benjamin J. Toff, | Title: Out of Touch, But Not out of Office | 2/6/2004 | See Source »

...apprehension. The humanities are not a haven from the pre-professional training that takes place at Harvard; really, they’re not so different from the departments dedicated to preparing scientists, engineers, doctors, investment bankers and the like. It seems the professors wish to prepare students who will fill the future ranks of academia. Yet many of us don’t share this intent. So, why do we study the humanities? The most useful application of what we learn will be to pepper our conversations. We’re certainly learning to become “very interesting...

Author: By Alexander Bevilacqua, ALEXANDER BEVILACQUA | Title: Life as a Cocktail Party | 2/4/2004 | See Source »

...theme song?" and act really sad that the person didn't have one. The end of my theme song went, "Hey, Joel, what do you know?/You've got your own show/Try not to blow it/Because if you're not funny, then it will soon be gone/And they can fill the time with some more Lenny Kravitz songs/Then you'll be back in obscurity/Where you belong." The Fountains of Wayne have psychic powers...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Television: How I Nearly Killed VH1 | 2/2/2004 | See Source »

...thornier than the design of the spacecraft is the problem posed by all the fuel, food and water such a mission would require. The Apollo flights to the moon were gas-up-and-go trips that lasted no more than 12 days. You could fill the tank and the larder once before you left and carry along everything you would need. Not so when you're looking at 14 months of round-trip flight time between Earth and Mars and perhaps a 1 1/2-year stay on the planet to catch the next Earth-Mars alignment back home. Even...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Space: Mission to Mars | 1/26/2004 | See Source »

...moot question. The pharmaceutical companies and their well-heeled lobbyists have found pockets to fill and palms to cross for too long. Our elected officials will not make any changes in the way mega-industrial conglomerates stick it to the average American citizen day after day. Shar Porier Homer...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: What's the best way to bring down drug prices? | 1/26/2004 | See Source »

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