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...polar-bear cub ventures out of the cozy den where her mother sleeps, drawn by "something in the moonlit stillness [that] quietly beckons. What is it?" The air of expectancy and mystery builds as she passes other sleeping animals--walrus, seals, whales--and arrives atop a mountain of snow, where "she waits, wondering." The moon, her companion, waits with her. Then a spectacular shower of shooting stars lights up the world and the other animals, and the little bear shines bright too. After this moment of mystical harmony with nature, she trudges home to her mother's soft, warm...
Before President Bush finally decided to keep Treasury Secretary John Snow as the leader of his second-term economic team last week, the White House's list of possible replacements had multiplied. According to a senior Administration official, Bush was considering erstwhile presidential candidate and publisher of Forbes magazine Steve Forbes, and former Texas Senator Phil Gramm. The White House also looked at a couple of Wall Street types...
From the outset, however, the President said of Snow, "I'm not predisposed towards replacing him," the Administration official told TIME. Behind the scenes, Bush had insisted on a careful re-evaluation of every Cabinet member. A number of first-termers were planning to leave of their own accord, whereas others, the Administration official said, were discreetly pushed. In Snow's case, the White House chose to take its time. Consideration was given to Gramm and Forbes. But as the Administration official put it, "For every good thing they brought to the table, there was something offsetting." As a maverick...
That left Snow, former CEO of railroad company CSX, the last man standing. Yet his triumph in the Cabinet sweepstakes could soon be tested. This week the White House will stage a two-day conference designed to highlight Bush's ambitious second-term domestic plans. To sell that package, Snow will need even more support from Bush, especially against the current backdrop of sluggish job growth, a slumping dollar, and record trade and fiscal deficits. --By Adam Zagorin and James Carney
...read about the coolest inventions of the year [Nov. 29]. With his innovative SpaceShipOne, Burt Rutan hit the ball not just out of the park but right out of the atmosphere. I was disappointed, however, that many of the creations you chose were impractical, half-baked ideas. Consider the Snow Boat, which, by means of an aluminum boat welded around a snowmobile, is supposed to solve the problem of the vehicle's falling through the ice. That's like making a safer motorcycle by carrying it in a U-Haul. Coolness is hard to define, but ridiculousness isn't part...