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...prime motivators in this election; and in the meantime, pro-choice Democrats are back in control of Congress. "The power change in Washington highlights the increasingly strategic role pregnancy centers play in the pro-life movement," says Kurt Entsminger, president of Care Net, the largest pregnancy-center network. With abortion-rights advocates now in leadership positions, "pro-life legislative advances will inevitably be shut down...
...could have been designed by a focus group of the American homme moyen sensuel: blond and cartoonishly bodacious. Her life could not have been better scripted by a reality-TV producer. She was a supersized meal of pop culture. We gobbled her down--in Playboy or on the E! network--felt a little sick afterward and then blamed her, like heart patients suing a fast-food chain...
...ends - at least until appeals - Shawn Carpenter's quest for justice. Carpenter, whose story was first written about in TIME magazine in August 2005, was a network security analyst working at Sandia National Laboratories in Albuquerque when he discovered that the lab's network was coming under a methodical series of attacks emanating from Chinese IP addresses. When the Navy veteran found out that dozens of Army bases and defense contractors around the country had been suffering identical Trojan horse attacks on their secure networks, he went to his bosses to present the evidence he had collected...
...course, for appropriating the channel's catchphrase) and The Truth, With Jokes. In 2004 his passion to mobilize progressives against Bush's war, and for the election of a Democratic President, landed him the job as host of a daily, three-hour talk show on the new liberal network Air America Radio, where - for a time, and in a few markets, among certain demographics - he got higher ratings than Rush Limbaugh and Bill O'Reilly...
...Franken could have made millions more writing books and giving speeches than he did as a talk-show host - especially for a network that often didn't pay his back salary. But he had been startled to learn that 21% of Americans got most of their news from talk radio, which at the time was overwhelmingly right-wing. "I didn't want to sit on the sidelines," he said today, "and I believed Air America could make a difference...