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...butt. You should have put Howard Dean on the cover. It was his 50-state strategy, along with the great fund-raising work of Congressman Rahm Emanuel and Senator Chuck Schumer, and a whole bunch of great candidates with grass-roots support, that won the election. Ruth Adkins Portland, Oregon, U.S. Twelve years ago, when the G.O.P.took control of the Congress, the cover of Time heralded the "G.O.P. Stampede." Now, when the stampede is by the Democrats, what does the cover say about it? There was nary a mention of the Democrats' historic victory or the Republicans' brutal thrashing, just...
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...present level is bad enough for Kathryn Wimmer, an apparel designer from Portland, Oregon, who was visiting a friend in Paris last week. "When I came here six years ago, things were a little expensive," she says. "Now you just watch the dollar going down every day. Pretty soon it's going to be hard just to come here." As for Christmas shopping in Europe, forget it. This year, Wimmer's only buying postcards...
...experiences also sway us, goading our brains into assessing risks based on rapid whispers of positive or negative emotion. "If you look at genocide, we just don't react," says Paul Slovic, a psychology professor at the University of Oregon. "With 9/11 we lost 3,000 people in one day, but during 1994 in Rwanda 800,000 people were killed in 100 days - that's 8,000 a day for 100 days - and the world didn't react at all. Now you see the same thing with Darfur...
...There are two systems for analyzing risk: an automatic, intuitive system and a more thoughtful analysis," says Paul Slovic, professor of psychology at the University of Oregon. "Our perception of risk lives largely in our feelings, so most of the time we're operating on system...