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...selection on Friday of Michael Steele, 50, as the Republican National Committee's next chairman is remarkable not merely because he is the first African American to head the party of Lincoln. The former Maryland lieutenant governor's selection is an acknowledgment by the party's leadership that the GOP must quickly recast itself if it is to remain relevant to an increasingly diverse electorate no longer moved by divisive social issues...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Steele Makes History, but Can the New Party Chief Remake the GOP? | 1/31/2009 | See Source »

...Health reported that it had accomplished something not unlike levitation, causing a microscopic sphere of gold to rise above a glass surface. Now, according to a paper published in the Jan. 23 issue of Science, a team of scientists from the Joint Quantum Institute (JQI) at the University of Maryland and the University of Michigan has joined the fun. The current bit of legerdemain? Teleportation...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Teleportation Is Real – But Don't Try It at Home | 1/29/2009 | See Source »

...Touching All the Bases In the two weeks that Obama lived in Washington as President-elect, he efficiently paid homage to the capital's various power centers. He did an interview at the Washington Post. He dined with leading conservative thinkers at George Will's suburban Maryland home. He rubbed elbows with his former colleagues on Capitol Hill, grabbed a bite at Ben's Chili Bowl and took a late-night tour of the Lincoln Memorial. He also paid quiet visits to both Arlington National Cemetery and Walter Reed Army Medical Center...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: In Transition, Obama Comes Up Aces | 1/20/2009 | See Source »

...zoos and aquariums have less flexibility as they cope with budget cuts. Live animals need to be fed and taken care of, no matter the revenue cuts. "You can't cut back on the food an elephant eats," says Jane Ballentine, the director of marketing at the Maryland Zoo, which has been forced to close for four additional weeks this winter. "If something needs to be fed, it's going to be fed." If a zoo is really struggling with a budget deficit, Feldman notes, wealthier zoos can step in to take over the care of some animals. But "that...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: When Zoos Cut Budgets, No Species Is Safe | 1/17/2009 | See Source »

...collective frustration with the state of their country. At least four of the founding 12 had once been registered Republicans. Most had stories of helping the Obama campaign; all had internalized Obama's message of bottom-up, people-powered political change. "For anything that is going on in southern Maryland, Barack Obama personally can have an impact - through us," explained Leandre. (See pictures of Obama on Flickr...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Obama's Permanent Grass-Roots Campaign | 1/15/2009 | See Source »

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