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...living, and you can be the richest rag doll on earth. All you have to do is last eight excruciating seconds on an agitated 1,800-lb. animal that would like nothing more than to smash you against the sideboards of the arena, fling you off its back and gore you with its horns. On the Professional Bull Riders (PBR) tour, concussions and broken bones are as common as Wranglers and brass-buckled belts. "Most bull riders are what you call gristleheads," says Mike Lee, 23, who has won $2 million in five years of riding. "If you're intelligent...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Bring On the Bulls | 9/18/2006 | See Source »

...spins it. Kevin Fink Fort Mill, South Carolina, U.S. Bravo to Klein for noting that "the real alternative to Bush's Republican extremism isn't Democratic extremism. It is bipartisan moderation." Now all you need to do is suggest a few potential Democratic contenders who embody that ideal. Kerry? Gore? Hillary? Howard Dean?! Having gored Joe Lieberman, the Democrats have demonstrated that they don't tolerate "bipartisan patriotism" and will destroy any card carrier who evinces such an admirable trait. Vince Ziccardi San Antonio, Texas, U.S. Klein seems to argue that pseudo-Democrats like Joe Lieberman are what the party...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Daily Hell of Baghdad | 9/16/2006 | See Source »

...oceans froze over completely. According to some, it could happen again. And ESPPers are the only ones who will be equipped to stop it! And if it isn’t enough that ESPP concentrators can stop a new ice age or rub elbows with Al Gore when he comes to visit ESPP 10 (it happened in 2004), they may also get a surprise trip to Madagascar. Professor Glenn Adelson, the recipient of two Levenson Teaching awards, takes his junior tutorial, “Conservation, Nature, and Biodiversity,” to a different tropical locale each spring. Last year...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Environmental Science and Public Policy | 9/14/2006 | See Source »

...about the universe and theoretically a grasp of its origins and our place in it. That is if you actually study—many students scrape by without going to lecture at all, miserably cramming the whole solar system in the night before the exam. For all you Al Gore wannabes, Science A-30, “The Atmosphere” will let you score some actual knowledge about global warming and its even sadder hag of a big sister, the depleting ozone layer. The inconvenient truth about “The Atmosphere,” however, is that though...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Science A | 9/14/2006 | See Source »

...base of black Democrats. But that limited base cost him against Cardin, and the veteran congressman is a heavy favorite in a Democratic state like Maryland. The other African-American Senate candidate is Harold Ford in Tennessee, a conservative state that hasn't elected a Democrat since Al Gore represented it. And Ford, facing a millionaire opponent named Bob Corker, couldn't have been happy seeing Chafee win; now the Democrats will have to spend money that could have gone to Ford's campaign trying to give Chafee the knockout blow that Laffey couldn?t deliver...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Chafee Gives the G.O.P. Many Reasons to Smile | 9/13/2006 | See Source »

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