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...mean, seriously. The other day I was sitting on an airplane, watching the usual slice of America attempt to squeeze derrières far too large into seats far too small. In the age of the seat belt extender, this is hardly an unusual sight. But just before takeoff, there was a rotund man rolling a wheelie suitcase down the aisle in way-too-tight pants. What was he wearing? You guessed it—sheaths of spandexy “denim” someone told him counted as jeans...
...audience? If fewer Americans than usual tune in to the address on TV, it will suggest that the country has tuned out the President. The West Wing has to hope that the nation is still interested in what its (relatively) new leader has to say. (See Barack Obama's top 10 sound bites...
...Your 2009 Person of the Year issue is, as usual, heavily biased in favor of Americans. Maybe this is your last gasp as the American Century draws to a close. Alan SyCip Muntinlupa, The Philippines...
...know is happy with me are scientists, inventors, entrepreneurs who are in the high-tech sectors, because they are seeing already the incredible investments that are happening that are going to have 20-, 30-year payoffs. It was the biggest investment in education. And it wasn't just the usual formulas. Some of it was helping to make sure teachers didn't get laid off, but what [Secretary of Education] Arne Duncan is doing with our Race to the Top Fund - we've already had 48 states react by implementing reforms that had been resisted for years...
...absolutely right that this seed that we've planted is going to have to be carefully nurtured. And for readers who aren't familiar, the basic idea is that we should not only fund the usual repaving of highways - although that's important - but we should also think, What's the 21st century infrastructure that's out there? And those decisions should be made by people who really have clear ideas about the kind of infrastructure we're going to need. As opposed to it being determined solely by, you know, "Who's the chairman of the transportation committee from...