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Thanks for taking the time to point??out what too often gets lost in today's climate of paranoia: people worry about the wrong things [Dec. 4]. I race motorcycles, so I often hear ill-informed proclamations about the danger I face. I contend that fast food and tobacco are much more likely to kill you than riding is. My father always said, "You can do safe things dangerously and dangerous things safely," and when you consider that nearly half of fatalities from motorcycle accidents involve alcohol, my odds improve. Add a helmet and other protective gear, and my odds...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Dec. 25, 2006 | 12/17/2006 | See Source »

Some cadets go to West Point??and encounter its demands, and for the next four years they pray that they can toe the line and make it through. Others, however, run the hardest obstacle course twice: once to test their technique, the next time to test their toughness...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Class of 9/11 | 5/22/2005 | See Source »

...conclusion. I should never be able to . . . hand you after an hour's discourse a nugget of pure truth to wrap up between the pages of your notebooks and keep on the mantelpiece for ever. All I could do was to offer you an opinion upon one minor point???a woman must have money and a room...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: How Long Till Equality? | 7/12/1982 | See Source »

...recommendation that Congress give more money to states and cities for hiring the unemployed for such public-service jobs as police officers, sanitation workers, zookeepers, librarians and teachers' aides. The program would be triggered when unemployment hit a certain point???probably 6%?and stayed at or above that level for three months...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: INFLATION: Ford's Plan: (Mostly) Modest Proposals | 10/14/1974 | See Source »

...decision with regard?with regard to what you do about White House people. The main thing is [inaudible] and you can look at it in terms of the fact that anybody who this touches should go out?without [inaudible] . . . Let's suppose?just take Ehrlichman is a case in point???that this thing brought in by [inaudible] that proves to be [inaudible] don't get anything else on Ehrlichman then the question is that nevertheless that in itself would raise a cloud over Ehrlichman...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: WATERGATE: Further tales from the transcripts | 5/20/1974 | See Source »

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