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...were quick to point out that her figures are anything but solid. The original trigger for Browner's proposal was a lawsuit brought by the American Lung Association. The suit accused the EPA of ignoring new scientific evidence showing that small particles in the air--bits of matter much tinier than the diameter of a human hair--are especially harmful to health. A federal judge ordered the agency to look at the evidence and, if the data warranted it, come up with new regulations...
Meanwhile, company sources happily volunteer the information that rap music represents only a small slice of Time Warner's total revenues: $85 million last year, about 2% of the $4 billion that the music division generates and an even tinier fraction of Time Warner's $15.9 billion in annual revenues. Translation: if the company were forced to scale back on rap, the bottom-line impact would be minimal...
These are exciting times for Republicans, exciting times indeed. Why, either of these two organizations could lay the foundation for the Republicans' future on campus! Yes, the capacity to lead a tiny fraction of a population equivalent in size to a tinier midwestern town surely lies ahead for one of these brave groups...
BATMAN. The summer's blockbuster comes to video stores this week. Finally, the handful of people who still haven't seen Batman will be able to explain its appeal to the even tinier (but discerning) group who find the film slow, murky, uninvolving and -- except for its visual grandeur, which may be lost on the small screen -- witless...
Among the millions of photographs taken every day, a select few will rank as great photojournalism. An even tinier category will merit appreciation as fine art. Those are the images that intrigue associate editor Richard Lacayo, who serves as TIME's photography critic besides writing in the magazine's Nation section. Years before Lacayo decided to pursue an English major at Cornell, he became fascinated with photography when he picked up a secondhand volume of Henri Cartier-Bresson's work at a neighborhood bookshop on New York's Long Island. "I was about 14 years old," says Lacayo...