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Dates: during 2000-2009
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Your article espousing the slaughter of goats was repellent. Vegetarianism is advancing because it is irrefutably beneficial for the planet. Soy, nuts, beans, flax and grains can easily supplant animal protein. Spare the goats and enjoy some oats. Brien Comerford, GLENWIEW...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: What Becomes a Leader Most? | 9/10/2008 | See Source »

...country ahead of partisan politics, McCain pretty much proved the opposite with his selection of a running mate whose main asset is her ability to reignite the culture wars. So maybe Governor Palin does represent everything that is good and fine about America, as she herself maintains. But spare us, please, any talk about how she is a tough fiscal conservative...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sarah Palin's Alaskonomics | 9/9/2008 | See Source »

...catch is that the additional battery has to be recharged by plugging your car into an electric outlet for several hours every time the battery gets drained, which can be inconvenient. Cox paid $9,999 for a 207-lb. Hymotion lithium-ion battery module, which fits into the spare tire well behind the back seat of his Prius and takes about six hours to charge. Aside from the black rubber-capped electrical outlet installed on the rear left bumper, Cox's Silver Prius looks exactly as it did before the conversion. "I don't think I'll make the money...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Giving Your Hybrid an Extra Charge | 9/3/2008 | See Source »

Your article espousing the slaughter of goats was repellent. Vegetarianism is advancing because it's irrefutably beneficial for the planet. Soy, nuts, beans, flax and grains can easily supplant animal protein. Spare the goats and enjoy some oats. Brien Comerford, GLENVIEW...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Inbox | 8/28/2008 | See Source »

Only two years ago, Barbery, 39, was a philosophy teacher in Normandy whose spare-time fiction writing had produced a single published work: the 2000 novel Une Gourmandise (A Delicacy). That tale of a world-famous food critic with deathbed yearnings for life's forgotten tastes won her a single award for culinary writing and a few encouraging reviews. Elegance, by contrast, which the weekly L'Express hailed for celebrating "the tiny pleasures of life . . . with the timeless nostalgia of a Marcel Proust," seems to have scored a direct hit on the global zeitgeist...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Muriel Barbery: An Elegant Quill | 8/27/2008 | See Source »

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