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...team had collected 300,000 shed primary teeth, which, they discovered, had absorbed nuclear waste from the milk of cows that were fed contaminated grass. The study helped establish an early-'60s ban on aboveground A-bomb testing and led to similar surveys across the U.S. and the rest of the world. Bauer...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones | 2/7/2008 | See Source »

...rendered, a sudden kiss, a private joke, flowers for no reason. Its expression is the very opposite of the fretful, "pre-order now, or be left with drugstore chocolates" connivances that the day promotes. For those who feel well loved, every day, of course, is Valentine's. For the rest, no card can console...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Valentine's Day: Forget it! | 2/7/2008 | See Source »

...mind-numbing $585.4 billion (this excluding another $50.5 billion in appropriations to the Department of Homeland Security). Perhaps a comparison can draw into relief the scope of this budgetary immoderation: with these endless hikes America has earned the lamentable distinction of spending as much on war-making as the rest of the world combined. Indeed, if we disregard the 13 other highest spenders (for the most part American allies), Washington actually throws more than twice as much money into defense as the remaining 158 countries. To call such spending “excessive” would be euphemistic. When...

Author: By Courtney A. Fiske | Title: A Lesson in Excess | 2/7/2008 | See Source »

...Crimson lost the rest of its matches in straight games...

Author: By Jake I. Fisher, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Crimson Slapped with First Loss in Sweep By Trinity, 9-0 | 2/7/2008 | See Source »

...different." "What began as a whisper has now swelled to a chorus that cannot be ignored; that will not be deterred; that will ring out across this land as a hymn that will heal this nation, repair this world, and make this time different than all the rest." At least in his prose, Obama doesn't sound like an underdog...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: For the Dems, a Dead Heat Gets Hotter | 2/6/2008 | See Source »

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