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What does alternative energy have to do with national security? Gray and Podesta are part of an unlikely alliance of neoconservatives, farmers and union and environmental leaders who want to wean the U.S. of its oil habit--some for purely green reasons (to stave off global warming), but others for the sake of cutting U.S. dependence on the volatile Middle East. And they have some radical ideas about how to do it. "We live in a world in which a terrorist attack in the Middle East could push oil well over $100 a barrel and send the world economy into...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Breaking That Dirty Old Habit | 6/6/2005 | See Source »

...November 1786, with only 50 pounds, a wool cloak, two dogs, a hatchet, and a peace pipe, Ledyard walked through northern Sweden and Finland to reach St. Petersburg, Russia. As he walked, he got in the habit of talking to himself in French: “I believe that wolves, rocks, woods & snow understand it, for I have addressed them in it & they have all been very complaisant to me,” he wrote to Jefferson...

Author: By David Zhou, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: BOOKENDS: Around the World In 286 Pages | 5/16/2005 | See Source »

...good for us, all this time spent in virtual worlds? Or is it as pernicious as television, sucking us ever further from reality? The AOL survey suggests we're in denial about the extent of our habit. One in 10 gamers claims to be addicted; 1 in 4 admits to losing a night of sleep to play games; and another quarter has been engrossed enough to skip meals. Club Pogo and Sims players average 18 and 20 hours a week on their games. Like a Vegas casino, this is a world in which the sun never rises or sets...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Who Is Playing Games--and Why | 5/15/2005 | See Source »

...November 1786, with only 50 pounds, a wool cloak, two dogs, a hatchet, and a peace pipe, Ledyard walked through northern Sweden and Finland to reach St. Petersburg, Russia. As he walked, he got in the habit of talking to himself in French: “I believe that wolves, rocks, woods & snow understand it, for I have addressed them in it & they have all been very complaisant to me,” he wrote to Jefferson...

Author: By David Zhou, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: BOOKENDS: Around the World In 286 Pages | 5/15/2005 | See Source »

Nixon, like Johnson, had a habit for making those around him uncomfortable. While drinking cocktails with the owners of the Los Angeles Times in 1967, Nixon blurted: “I probably shouldn’t tell this…But…Why did the farmer keep a bucket of shit in his living room...

Author: By David Zhou, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: BOOKENDS: Lance Morrow’s Presidential Dream Team Falls Short | 5/11/2005 | See Source »

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