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...think it is catching on. It's the fastest-growing sport in America. I think a lot of guys are learning to respect our game as well. Our women's Olympic team is going for its fifth gold medal...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: 10 Questions for Candace Parker | 7/6/2009 | See Source »

...delivered her son. Lisa Leslie waited a year. They're still at the top of their game. I don't think it's going to be easy, by any means, but I think it's possible to come back better than I was. I understand my body a lot more. I focus a lot more on stretching and taking care of myself...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: 10 Questions for Candace Parker | 7/6/2009 | See Source »

...shopping. On a Monday afternoon at the home-improvement store Menards, the parking lot is packed with pickups. It's the start of construction season, after all, and with Bismarck's population growing - not the case for North Dakota overall - there are still houses and stores to be built and remodeled. The trucks drive away with picnic tables and water heaters in their beds...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Bismarck: The Town the Recession Missed | 7/6/2009 | See Source »

...better. I first encountered this argument last fall in the work of left-leaning blogger Matthew Yglesias--he advocated "crude measures" like the old ban on interstate banking. Lately, though, I've been hearing similar suggestions from those of a conservative, University of Chicago bent. "When you give a lot of discretion to regulators, they don't use the tools that are given to them," Chicago economist Gary Becker said at a conference this spring. His prescription: rules, not leeway...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Dumbing Down Regulation: The Quest For Simpler Rules | 7/6/2009 | See Source »

...brainy young civilian experts. McNamara's "whiz kids" engaged in the kind of "qualitative analysis" he had used to turn Ford around and which he believed would lead to a better and less costly military. But their approach didn't work so well during peacetime - McNamara spent a lot of time developing a "flexible response" strategy for nuclear war - and, combined with overly compliant military leaders during Vietnam, his team failed miserably...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Robert McNamara Dies: No Escape from Vietnam | 7/6/2009 | See Source »

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