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...think he was somewhat of a zealot. I don't have a problem with him pushing an agenda; it's the way he did it.' MIKE THOMAS, a doughnut-shop owner in Bay County, Florida, criticizing Dr. Jason Newsom's antiobesity campaign's slogan AMERICA DIES ON DUNKIN...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Verbatim | 8/31/2009 | See Source »

...problem, for white comics as well as black ones, is that they actually like Obama, and they say so. Even Lewis Black, the quivering maestro of political outrage, strains to put an edge on his obvious admiration for the President. "He's the first leader in my lifetime who's actually full of hope," Black says in his act. "His nipples are bursting with hope! He's lactating hope!" Talking after a recent set at New York's Gotham Comedy Club, Black admits that Obama is difficult to make fun of but insists he's had no trouble finding political...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Comedy in the Obama Age: The Joking Gets Hard | 8/31/2009 | See Source »

...building of new coal-fired power plants, even those that include carbon capture and sequestration. Until all fly ash is recycled and/or safely disposed of, the danger of polluted groundwater and sludge spills will still loom large. New coal plants will only serve to exacerbate a serious and unsolved problem. Besides, solar, wind, and nuclear energy do not emit greenhouse gases, as coal currently does...

Author: By Anthony P. Dedousis | Title: Old King Coal | 8/31/2009 | See Source »

...official says Hayden had one short meeting with McCain, in the Senate cloakroom, but doesn't recall the details of that discussion. But, the official adds, "Hayden has never claimed that the committees told him, "You're good to go, no problem." A CIA spokesperson declined to comment on the dispute...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: McCain Denies Giving O.K. to a CIA Torture Tactic | 8/31/2009 | See Source »

...think I understood how much of a good girl I was until I grew up. I was always the loud girl, the expressive girl. I had no problem telling everybody how I felt all the time, probably too often. I think it was more that I noticed around me that my friends very often could not express themselves when they were unhappy. I spent so much of my adolescence going up to friends and saying, "Are you mad at me?" And having them say no but knowing that they were. I had so many confrontations in my youth with girls...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: When Being a Good Girl Is Bad | 8/31/2009 | See Source »

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