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...Pyrenean estate in the years just before World War I, continues a family tradition that decrees no one enters either cave without a Bégouën at their side. Not even Jean Clottes, who wrote an extensive monograph on Tuc, was allowed to venture off a narrow path along the center of the cave. "My grandfather said that a cave opened to the public is lost to science," says Bégouën. "Since nature conserved it for 17,000 years, we do absolutely nothing: no new plantings on the surface, no sealing it off with doors...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Saving Beauty | 5/7/2006 | See Source »

...cleaning up Congress the way teenagers clean up their bedrooms, and the result will be the same mess." BRIAN BAIRD, Democratic Representative from Washington, on the narrow passage of a lobbying-reform bill that critics say is too weak...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Verbatim: May 15, 2006 | 5/7/2006 | See Source »

...five, hugging Alex). Instead of tangible rewards, shouts of encouragement, a sense of accomplishment and what Greenspan calls the "warm, pleasurable feelings" that come from human interaction serve as a reinforcement for learning. In a classroom of 11-to-14-year-olds, kids are asked to stand in a narrow row between two strips of blue crepe paper representing water. The challenge: to arrange themselves in height order without stepping over the lines and falling "off the boat." The task combines communication skills, problem solving and visual, spatial skills. Teachers at CTC are trained to work on sensory issues...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Tale of Two Schools | 5/7/2006 | See Source »

TIME Analysts say AMD's advantage will narrow, perhaps even reverse, in the next six months. Your reaction...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CEO SPEAKS: Chipping Away | 5/7/2006 | See Source »

...about. There’s just one problem: Republicans can frame too, and they have Fox News. If the Democrats want to reframe the debate, they had better focus on the substantive, not the rhetorical, differences between the two parties.The latest Framer to make a stir outside of the narrow world of Democratic activists is Michael Tomasky. He argues that Democrats need to move away from the interest group politics that has characterized the party since the 1960s and start talking about the “common good.” Since the late 1960s, according to Tomasky, the Democratic...

Author: By Samuel M. Simon, | Title: The Framers | 5/4/2006 | See Source »

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