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...TIME is helping set a national agenda. Last year, after health researchers announced that two-thirds of Americans are overweight or obese, we published a 32-page special report on the problem. Also, TIME president Eileen Naughton, along with sciences editor Philip Elmer-DeWitt, organized a conference in Williamsburg, Va., to address the issue. Co-sponsored by ABC News and supported by The Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, the summit called together 400 leaders in the medical, corporate and public-policy fields to unravel how Americans got themselves into such a fix and how to get out of it. Last week...
Mangu-Ward began dabbling in backstage work in her high school in Alexandria, VA. When she arrived at Harvard, she was unsure if she wanted to pursue theater until she was approached by Jeremy Blocker ’04, who at the time was directing a production of “Yeomen of the Guard...
Mangu-Ward began dabbling in backstage work in her high school in Alexandria, VA. When she arrived at Harvard, she was unsure if she wanted to pursue theater until she was approached by Jeremy Blocker ’04, who at the time was directing a production of “Yeomen of the Guard...
...injured in the Khobar Towers bombing in Saudi Arabia, and the Department of Defense concluded it needed to acquire better protection for the troops--the Pentagon has invited hundreds of select private-security firms to display their state-of-the-art gear at the Marine Corps base in Quantico, Va. The three-day show, called the Force Protection and Equipment Demonstration (FPED), is unique in that the vendors have to put up or shut up: they have to prove that their products actually work as advertised and be able to deliver inventory in 90 days. The military's push...
...filibuster is more necessary than ever. Though Republicans control the White House and the Capitol, our country is strikingly torn on the most glaring political issues currently confronting legislators. The filibuster is what keeps the voices of half the country in the political limelight. Sen. John W. Warner, R-Va. put it best when he told the New York Times “I just look at this institution as really the last bastion of protecting the rights of the minority, and we should be very careful before we try and make any changes...