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...hurt? Yes! How the??hell did they think I'd feel?" Ralph Asher Alpher once said of Arno Penzias and Robert Wilson, the astronomers who won the 1978 Nobel Prize for the Big Bang theory without citing Alpher--30 years after he had proposed the notion in his doctoral dissertation. The physicist was eventually recognized for his work, with awards including the National Medal of Science...
...typology of the??British, there is a special place reserved for Essex Girl, a lady from London's eastern suburbs who dresses in white strappy sandals and suntan oil, streaks her hair blond, has a command of Spanish that runs only to the word Ibiza, and perfects an air of tarty prettiness. Victoria Beckham--Posh Spice, as she was--is the acknowledged queen of that realm...
Everything China produces, with the??possible exception of textiles, is pure junk. All those "goodwill gifts" offered by U.S. credit-card companies are completely worthless. TIME sent me a made-in-China radio set as an award for being on time with my subscription renewal. The radio lasted all of one hour--a screeching box that ended up on the junk pile. Americans are buying substandard products and sustaining China's economy. Future generations will condemn us for this...
David von Drehle's piece about the??courage of firefighters such as those who died recently in a Charleston, S.C., fire was a poetic and visceral description of emergency workers' tremendous bravery [July 2]. Sometimes chaos does win over science. Thank you for reminding us that heroes do their job every day. They deserve our thanks, respect...
...the??devil's in the details. And any serious climate-change legislation will be a forest of details. The key feature of any Dingell bill will be a mandatory cap-and-trade system modeled on Dingell's 1990 acid-rain legislation. Industries would be allowed to emit fixed amounts of greenhouse gases according to their share of the overall problem. If a power plant or factory reduces its emissions, the saving can be sold to plants that fail to adhere to the cap. In this way, reductions become valuable and pollution costly...