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...after a long summer spent staring at CNBC and Excel’s Visual Basic editor. And journalism? Outside of The Crimson, I’m pretty sure it’s not for me. The New York Times doesn’t have a barbecue on its roof, after...

Author: By Alex Slack, | Title: Jacks of All Trades | 8/12/2005 | See Source »

...Richard Nixon started wars on cancer and, most memorably, on drugs. "The irony is that all of these wars on abstractions have pretty much been failures," says Steven Pinker, a cognitive scientist at Harvard. "It's a bit of a conceptual mismatch. If your roof leaks, you don't have a war against rain." Often those waging the wars request a name change. Drug czar Barry McCaffrey, who fought in Vietnam and the Persian Gulf, called the war metaphor "inadequate" for drugs in 1996: "This isn't going to be won by anybody's army." Former State Department official David...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A War by Any Other Name | 8/1/2005 | See Source »

...guess you can call my life stressful, chaotic and filled with hard work. When taking a look at it all, I see past this and notice how fortunate I am to have not only a mother and a father but food every day and a roof over my head. I am sure that even in my most stressful moments, I have it easier than more than half the world. Still, I find it ironic writing about how occupied my schedule is when I barely have enough time to write...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Competition: Not a Minute to Spare | 7/31/2005 | See Source »

...counting back up, when the landing time had passed and the shuttle had not arrived. People watching in eastern Texas heard a crushing rumble outside, the dogs whined, and horses started, and a poisonous rain of broken shuttle pieces fell onto backyards and roadsides and parking lots, through the roof of a dentist's office, bits of machinery in Nacogdoches, a hand and leg in San Augustine. NASA told everyone to stay away from the debris, that it could kill you, but the agency mainly wants a chance to gather the evidence and deter grave robbers. NASA buried...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Seven Astronauts, One Fate | 7/28/2005 | See Source »

...objects' real value. "The dealers buy artifacts using large numbers of low-denomination notes," he says, "so the villagers see this large amount of money and let the object go for much less than it is worth." Among the most valuable are the intricately carved poles that support the roof of a village's haus tambaran. These poles, made from a special hardwood, represent the most powerful spirit in a village and can fetch as much as $100,000 at international auctions, says Eoe. Haraha says he is seeking to question Stuttgen about some spirit-house poles that were...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The New Head Hunters | 7/25/2005 | See Source »

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