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...designed (though he did not construct) one of the first synthesizers. He devised the first eight-track tape recording system, which would not become generally accepted until 15 years later, when the Beatles made their White Album. And he invented the Gibson Les Paul, an instrument used in various models by Eric Clapton, Jeff Beck and loads of other Guitar-zans. (See TIME's top 100 albums...
...available plans - in the event that more than one exists - is nearly impossible. That problem is at the root of much of what health-care reform is supposed to change, and one of the primary weapons intended to do that is a poorly understood, often overlooked facet of the various proposals that is dubbed the health-insurance exchange. (Read "Howard Dean on the Politics of Health-Care Reform...
...came time to deliver my presentation, I stood. "I have been told that the most joyful day in your calendar is the birthday of the Great Leader. I propose a chocolate festival in every major North Korean city to correspond with this holiday. Special packaging can celebrate the various feats of your leaders. For the first two years, we will offer our product for free, but later children will beg their parents for it, as they do now in Europe. Imagine a population of 23 million people who have never tasted chocolate, turned into a nation of chocolate lovers that...
...Three-Martini Family Vacation, some people took her literally. "I did hear from a few mommies who felt that I was, in fact, giving them 'permission' to party down with the cocktails while supervising a gang of 2-year-olds," she says. "I tried to explain in various interviews and columns that it's not about alcohol - it's about attitude. The addition of alcohol to your incredibly overscheduled, child-centered life wasn't going to suddenly make you a relaxed 'three-martini mom.' It was simply going to make you a very busy drunk." (Watch TIME's video...
...said was, is that it shouldn't be something that's simply a taxpayer-subsidized system that wasn't accountable but rather had to be self-sustaining through premiums and that had to compete with private insurers ... Now, if you look at the results, the 80% of all the various bills that are out there that people have agreed to reflect our - most of our ideas from the start of this process ... But the 20% that right now is still the holdup would have been a holdup if we had put forward a plan, hadn't put forward a plan...