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...Kitt's persevering through a life that began hard and was never less than challenging - her ability to thrive in good times and survive all the other times - demanded the strength and resilience of a creature sturdier than a house cat. A tiger, perhaps. When she died on Dec. 25 at 81 in Connecticut, she had been enticing and educating the public for more than 60 years. Kitt succumbed to colon cancer on Christmas day, just as thousands, perhaps millions of old-timers were playing some Yuletide CD containing her seasonal ode to seduction, Santa Baby. (See TIME...
With odds of winning money as low as one in three, the lottery has continued to thrive since its inception during the Spanish War of Independence. Cortes de Cadiz, the country's legislative body, introduced the game in 1812 in order to increase state income and held the very first drawing on March 4 that year. Other lotteries had existed in the country since 1763, when King Carlos III began using them to finance Spain's side in the Napoleonic War, among other ventures. It was he who first began the tradition of having orphan boys draw the winning numbers...
...These benefits have been visible to nearly everyone. Public parks in Switzerland are no longer infested with heroin abusers and urban centers are no longer full of scattered “shooting galleries,” which enable dangerous habits like needle-sharing and foster environments where criminals thrive. Thus, the intiative is win-win, both for durg users and non-users in Switzerland...
...save print newspapers lies with the readers, a power they ought to exercise.Transitioning away from print and toward the Internet will be a painful process, as the Tribune example indicates. However, it need not wreak permanent damage on the newspaper industry. The fourth estate can sustain itself, and even thrive, if it is able to use the resources of the Web to develop innovative new methods for advertising, content, and design. If the industry proves itself adaptable, the Tribune bankruptcy will be seen not as the beginning of the end of print, but as a birth pang...
...they would her legendary lineage. At heart, the American political process is about opening positions of leadership to all, not to a select few lucky enough to have been born into a particular (aristocratic) family. As a nation, we rely on underdogs to revitalize the status quo, and we thrive on dynamism and perpetual regeneration. Ironically, that was a large part of the appeal of John F. Kennedy ’40 in 1960. But another Senator Kennedy—especially a temporarily unelected one—would only serve to reinforce the already daunting monolithic nature of her family...