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Critic Lewis Mumford observed that traditionalists are pessimists about the future and optimists about the past, which resonates in a country founded by generations of pilgrims willing to leave everything behind and start anew. I try to resist the traps that can make traditions toxic: the temptation to use them as cover for prejudice and cowardice and conformity, a refusal to change or stretch--"we'll do it this way because we always have...
...wasn't at all sympathetic to complaints about civil rights abuses. We were treated like Negroes, to use a polite term. We were put in our place." - Marsha Coleman-Adebayo, a former EPA employee whose complaints of a "racially toxic" environment there led to the signing of the Notification and Federal Employee Anti-Discrimination and Retaliation Act of 2001. (TIME...
...politician, of course, would want to put lots of space between himself and a toxic scandal like this one, in which the sitting governor stands accused of trying to sell President-elect Barack Obama's vacant Senate seat to the highest bidder. Daley, though, has a special interest in trying to draw such a sharp line: not only has his own administration been dogged by patronage scandals and federal investigations, but John Harris, the governor's co-defendant and chief of staff, was once one of Daley's top lieutenants at City Hall. (See the top 10 scandals...
...ruble collapsed and the country defaulted. This time, Russia has $450 billion in foreign reserves left from the $600 billion it had amassed thanks to the soaring energy prices of the past few years. Its biggest banks, all of them state-controlled, appear to have largely avoided the toxic assets that have been the downfall of so many of their counterparts in the U.S. and Western Europe. Yet Russia has been caught unawares by the domino effect of the financial crisis because of its unhealthy overdependence on oil, gas and metals, which account for more than three-quarters of export...
...Windows Vista. If you leave your computer alone for just a moment, it could be running Vista when you return. To prevent this from ever happening, switch to an abacus or slide rule. 3. The environment Desktop computers are full of noisy, power-hungry moving parts, and they release toxic chemicals into the soil when put in landfills. Before the liberals take over our government and send your desktop the way of the incandescent light bulb, smash your computer to deny them the pleasure. 4. It’s addictive Recent research suggests that up to nine million Americans could...