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...hard to believe now what a darling touch-screen voting was seven years ago. After the Florida presidential vote recount debacle - which made traditional paper voting, especially the infamous "butterfly" ballots and hanging chads, look positively Third World - electronic voting was embraced as the way back from America's electoral humiliation. Some 50,000 touch-screen machines were bought in 37 states at a cost of almost a quarter of a billion dollars...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Voting Out E-Voting Machines | 11/3/2007 | See Source »

ROUTINE AUTISM SCREENING WAS RECOMMENDED LAST YEAR. WHAT'S NEW? Pediatricians are now being told to routinely screen all children--not just those with symptoms--for autism at their 18-month and 2-year checkups...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Briefing: Nov. 12, 2007 | 11/2/2007 | See Source »

People will fall in love, on a TV or movie screen, with a creature they would gladly kill were they to find it in their kitchen. So audiences have cheered on Rodentia from Mickey to the aspiring chef of Ratatouille. So, too, with the social, saucer-eyed, erect-standing mongoose relatives of Meerkat Manor, who have followed in the paw prints of The Lion King's Timon to raise their species' star in Hollywood. The Kalahari nature show is Animal Planet's biggest hit, a saga of turf wars, sex, betrayal and cuddly pups. It's manna from TV heaven...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Looks like Meerkat Love | 11/2/2007 | See Source »

Bill Gates, the father of the Geek Pantheon, has said that he will not read more than four or five pages at a time off of a computer screen. But digital consumption of text is growing every day. Most Harvard students lack even a cursory knowledge of what is contained in the prodigious collections of Widener Library, and few could navigate the stacks without a map. In this generation of HOLLIS-dependent undergrads, the only romance associated with the library can be found in the smutty open dialogue of Bored@Lamont or late-night hookups in Widener. Thanks...

Author: By Joshua J. Kearney, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: From Widener to the World Wide Web | 11/2/2007 | See Source »

That creates a particular problem in trying to figure out which donations are being funneled through proxies. Fund-raisers face pressure to gather large numbers of checks but have no responsibility to screen them. Fugitive businessman Norman Hsu drew attention to the $850,000 he bundled for Clinton because of some of the donations came from people of modest means. In August, two Michigan lawyers were indicted on charges of soliciting and reimbursing proxy donors who contributed $125,000 to John Edwards' 2004 presidential...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Hillary Clinton's Chinatown Tangle | 11/2/2007 | See Source »

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