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...health policy; and bad foreign policy to boot. At a time when farm incomes are at an all-time high, the legislation would perpetuate a system that redistributes billions of dollars from taxpayers to wealthy farmers, particularly the huge industrial operators who devour the most water and fossil fuels, spew the most pesticides, erode the most soil, grow the most fattening foods, and use their handouts to buy out smaller farmers and depopulate rural America. Only 1% of Americans are farmers, and the largest 5% of those farmers vacuum up three-fourths of the subsidies. The subsidies also flout...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Farm Bill Stalls — for Now | 11/17/2007 | See Source »

...audience momentarily laughed at Ahmadinejad's remark that there are no homosexuals in Iran, he conveniently omitted mention of the applause throughout the speech. Klein's commentary adds to Ahmadinejad's good run in recent weeks: an invitation to speak at a prestigious university, prominent platforms from which to spew his propaganda and now Western "intellectuals" minimizing the danger and challenges he poses to the world community. Ahmadinejad may be no Hitler, but nuclear arms in the hands of fanatics who have no compunction about setting them off among civilian populations is not something to be taken lightly. I became...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Inbox | 10/18/2007 | See Source »

...columbia audience momentarily laughed at Ahmadinejad's remark that there are no homosexuals in Iran, he conveniently omitted mention of the applause throughout the speech. Klein's commentary adds to Ahmadinejad's recent good run: an invitation to speak at a prestigious university, prominent platforms from which to spew his propaganda and now Western "intellectuals" minimizing the danger and challenges he poses. Ahmadinejad may be no Hitler, but nuclear arms in the hands of fanatics who have no compunction about setting them off among civilian populations is not something to be taken lightly. I became aware of terrorism...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Inbox | 10/12/2007 | See Source »

...bacterium's genetic machinery and within minutes start to pump out hundreds of copies of themselves. When enough progeny build up inside the cell, the phages produce an enzyme that chews through the cell wall, causing it to explode with the force of a popping champagne cork and spew out the viral intruders...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Fighting Drug-Resistant Bugs | 6/7/2007 | See Source »

...black woman, I am bothered that Imus went too far, that he's been allowed to spew his garbage virtually unchecked for decades, that the Rev. Jesse Jackson and Sharpton are hypocrites and that too much hip-hop degrades women. But I am even more disgusted that Imus' defenders try to trivialize his remarks by citing his charity work. Philanthropy is not a license to discriminate. Doing good works doesn't give anyone the right to disrespect me, my race or my gender. Renee Newbold, Newport News, Virginia...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Inbox | 5/2/2007 | See Source »

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