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Reid says he isn't part of the capital culture and doesn't care to be. He avoids the social circuit, preferring to spend his time reading nonfiction, power walking and doing yoga (yes, yoga--four times a week). "I try to be in the background more than the foreground," he says. "And I succeed most of the time." That's because Reid knows better than most where the real work gets done...
...giving customers an opportunity to spend $2--an almost laughable amount of money--so we can plant a "portion" of a tree, and that tree will consume the carbon dioxide equivalent to the energy production required for the notebook computer over its lifetime. For a desktop computer it'll be $6. If you're going to spend $800 or $1,000 on a computer, why not spend another $2 or $6 to be carbon neutral...
...side, they basically need more money,” Bilmes said. “There’s no way around it. But you’re basically talking about giving another five billion dollars a year on the medical side, and that’s about what we spend on combat in two weeks.”A failure to allocate such funds in favor of increasing troop presence would be irresponsible, said Bilmes.“It’s wrong to spend all this money necessary to do a surge when we’re not coughing...
Students on financial aid at Harvard are expected to spend less than $2,750 a year on living expenses—and it costs about half of that to pay for a year’s worth of books. Even worse is that it requires a substantial amount of money, a lump sum of over $600 at the beginning of each semester, to buy books for classes...
...glad to see that, 17 years later, Ken is still using any excuse to say "Gaylord Perry," I can?t abide his vote. I wrote a bunch of stories for TIME about McGwire in 1998 when he broke the single-season home run record, and I got to spend a little time with him. Yes, he was roughly three people wide, and yes, he had backne and yes, maybe his smile was a little gum-heavy, but I watched McGwire hit a baseball harder than I've ever seen anyone hit one. And since more than 100 players tested positive...