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...like applause and people to rave about me, doesn't make it right. I'm ashamed of it. I'm sick of it. I'm sick of not having the courage to be an absolute nobody. I'm sick of myself and everybody else that wants to make some kind of a splash...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: J.D. Salinger Dies: Hermit Crab of American Letters | 1/29/2010 | See Source »

...idea whose time has come - at least for environmentalists. According to Environment America, high-speed rail uses a third less energy per mile than auto or air travel, and a nationwide system could reduce oil use by 125 million bbl. a year. In addition, high-speed rail represents the kind of long-term infrastructure investment that will pay back for decades, just as the interstate highway system of the 1950s has. "This is a down payment on a truly national program," said Biden, who has logged more than 7,900 round trips of his own on Amtrak. "It will change...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Can High-Speed Rail Succeed in America? | 1/29/2010 | See Source »

...participate without worrying about injuring themselves before the Big Dance. Adjusting the rules to resemble a regular game would improve audience interest immensely. And finally, how about raising the stakes? In Major League Baseball, the All-Star Game winner gets home-field advantage for the World Series; offering some kind of reward for the winning conference would help spur actual competition. For now, the Pro Bowl is a game that satisfies neither fans nor players. Expect the ratings to reflect that yet again on Sunday...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Is the NFL Pro Bowl Broken? | 1/29/2010 | See Source »

...telltale little scorch marks that come from passing through a real oven, and the Wonder-bread-like dough of its assembly-line rivals. As someone who grew up in Atlantic City, N.J., no pizza mecca, I still love the traditional "low-moisture" (i.e., greasy) mozzarella we all remember, the kind that forms an appetizingly orange compound as it merges with the sauce. I couldn't care less what toppings the city fathers of Naples think are canonical. But after eating good pizza - acidic sauce, unwaxy cheese, unwaffly dough - I just can't go back. (See pictures of what the world...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Domino's Mea Culpa and America's Pizza Passions | 1/29/2010 | See Source »

...their new pie is a Franken-pizza of different cheeses, garlic-, salt- and butter-drenched crust and pepper-spiked sauce. But the fact that they bothered to make it at all shows that, in pizza as in politics, Americans have a persistent urge for progress, even of the crudest kind...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Domino's Mea Culpa and America's Pizza Passions | 1/29/2010 | See Source »

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