Word: ideas
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...says a little bit about Steve Forbes and a lot about American politics. A dark-horse candidate usually has to win something, or lose by less than expected, before he can hope to insert himself into the national imagination. Forbes is not the first rich man with a Big Idea to try to enter American politics at the top; nor is this the first time the mainstream candidates have courted an electorate so eager to rebuke them. So why is he now in second place in four key primary and caucus states, surrounded by reporters wherever he goes, seeing...
...wants, wherever he wants. He has already shed upwards of $2 million in Arizona. In Iowa and New Hampshire he will spend at least twice what the law permits the other candidates to spend. His opponents claim the press has given him a free ride, whether charmed by the idea of an editor-king or just looking for a plot twist with which to torture the front runners...
Consider this week's issue. When it became apparent that Steve Forbes was breaking out of the G.O.P. primary pack, in good measure on the strength of his flat-tax proposals and his personal fortune, our editors saw the perfect opportunity for a cover story examining both an important idea and the man who has tried to embody it. At the same time, however, the issue was to include TIME's second annual survey of the State of the Nation, a comprehensive snapshot of the social and economic condition of the U.S. today, and the national mood that arises from...
Welles, thrilled by Mankiewicz's idea for a Hearst film, was also desperate. His first RKO project--Heart of Darkness, which would be told with a subjective camera and would star Welles as Marlow and Kurtz--was deemed too pricey. Now, with Mank's unbilled help (the deal specified no screen credit for his script), Welles hoped to turn a jolly plutocrat into a tragic figure, swathe the San Simeon Sun King in the menacing shadows of movie melodrama. Kane would be Welles' Hearst of Darkness...
...SOUNDED LIKE SUCH A GOOD IDEA. Scientists knew that folks who eat a lot of fruits and vegetables have lower rates of cancer and heart disease. They also knew that these same people have high levels of a compound called beta carotene in their blood. Like its chemical cousin vitamin A, beta carotene--which is found in carrots, squash and leafy, dark-green vegetables--seems to act like a biochemical broom, sweeping out of the body toxins that can trigger cancerous growth and heart problems. Could taking pills with extra doses of the compound confer some of the same benefits...