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...also thought it would make a great cover for TIME. Is being a vegetarian really good for you, and does it, as some of its adherents claim, help save the planet? How did this trend go from odd to mainstream? It all tied in, too, with animal rights, which could be the next big social movement in American life. The anti-fur campaign, organic dairies, free-range chickens--they strike me as harbingers of something big to come, maybe not in a decade but during this century. Although I admire the commitment of the animal-rights folks--except for their...
...court, and look forward to the day when laws govern the ways that nations and their armed forces behave. But Washington should argue that for now, the world is a dangerous place. It often falls to the U.S., as the most powerful nation on the planet, to apply force so as to mitigate evil. True, the U.S. uses its power primarily in its own interest, as do all other nations; nonetheless, the American military machine is a unique global resource whose actions often accrue to the benefit of others. It is in the interests of everyone that there should...
...Japanese mornings begin with unprecedented TV broadcasts of each of his games. His face stares from T shirts, newspapers, subway ads. He is, appropriately enough, both everywhere and nowhere to be found, dominating a nation while squatting in a chair half a planet away. But the Ichiro paradox cuts most deeply across the game he left behind. Ichiro has given Japanese baseball new life, yet by the time he's done, it may be crippled beyond repair...
...Mercedes for $100,000 and, if all goes well, buying it back two years later for $20,000. An $80,000 profit, and they still have the car - all tuned up, to boot. Bravo, wise guys. • That I should not admire wise guys; they're ruining the planet. • That my two-year-old son's ability to assemble complex structures with his Lego doesn't qualify him as a captain of industry. • That there is poetry in small shareholders. At Vivendi's April 24 general assembly, I witnessed holders of just 10 shares screaming through greed-distorted...
...owns stakes through Liberty Media. Though Liberty is publicly traded on the New York Stock Exchange, Malone owns 44.6% of the voting shares and controls the company as its chairman. Liberty owns the Starz and Encore premium movie channels, plus 50% of Discovery Communications (which includes Discovery, Animal Planet, Learning and Travel channels) and 43% of the home-shopping channel QVC. In addition, it holds valuable stakes in Vivendi (3%), News Corp. (18%), USA Interactive (20%) and AOL Time Warner (4%), the parent company of this magazine. Liberty also invests in cable and programming companies in Latin America and Japan...