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...response from hedge funds is indicative of their new Establishment persona. They are hiring lobbyists and courting lawmakers--a far cry from the way hedgies dug in their heels in 2004 when the SEC first proposed they register basic information...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Hello, Hedge Funds | 11/26/2006 | See Source »

...astounded to learn that Howard Stern earns $1,000 in 24 sec., while police officers and high school teachers earn the same amount for 43 hr. of work. The disparity of earnings between celebrities and average Americans clearly shows how far our culture's values have fallen. A radio personality's value to our society is totally insignificant compared with that of hardworking police officers and teachers. Forrest F. Leigh Boulder, Colorado, U.S. time's statement that "hispanics are the only group having more than enough children to replace themselves in the population" could imply that our continued population growth...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A President In Isolation | 11/21/2006 | See Source »

Sprawled along Memorial Stadium’s side streets were dozens of RVs, each equipped with televisions (plural) broadcasting every nationally televised football game. Ohiri dwellers often don’t even know the score of the Harvard-Yale game, much less the play-by-play of the early SEC game...

Author: By Aidan E. Tait, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: The Game Can't Top Oklahoma Football | 11/15/2006 | See Source »

Jackie Bibby, a.k.a. "The Texas Snake Man," had four records, including sitting in a bathtub with 81 rattlesnakes and sharing a sleeping bag with 109. He earned a fifth last week, holding ten 212-ft. Western diamondback rattlesnakes in his mouth for 12.5 sec...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Going For Guinness | 11/12/2006 | See Source »

...Atomic number of the newest element on the periodic table. The number refers to the quantity of protons in the nucleus of the element-the heaviest ever detected .001 sec. Length of time that the element existed, according to Russian and U.S. scientists who said last week that they had created it in a particle accelerator...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones | 10/23/2006 | See Source »

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