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Thanks to the intrepid Lewis and Clark and the creepy, costumed re-enactors who periodically retrace their steps, my fellow Montanans and I understand that crossing our vast and mostly empty state without repeatedly feeding debit and credit cards into the maws of greedy self-service gas pumps is, at least in theory, possible. It's a romantic, enchanting notion: walking and paddling great distances without a bulky wallet in one's back pocket. I doubt I'll ever try it, though. In a state where a visit to the nearest Home Depot can take a whole weekend and require...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Big Sky, Meet Small Car | 10/2/2005 | See Source »

...vast majority of U.S. drug research is conducted by pharmaceutical companies, but few experts trust them to do head-to-head matchups. It's just too easy for a company to tilt the odds in its own favor by choosing the weakest rival drug or by playing around with dosages or the patient-selection process...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Viewpoint: Why New Drugs Don't Live Up to the Hype | 9/30/2005 | See Source »

...God’s sake, don’t buy the whole album.“Don’t Cha” appeals to the vast majority of record-buying America: women who wish they were this sexually confident and the men who wish their women were that sexually confident...

Author: By Scoop A. Wasserstein, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: pcd: The Pussycat Dolls | 9/30/2005 | See Source »

Matt J. Glazer ’06 and Andrew H. Golis ’06 passed many of the hours they spent driving listening to the radio. By the end of the summer, they had a vast knowledge of top-40 country music—and even a favorite song: “As Good As I Once Was” by Toby Keith. Keith is also the artist behind “Courtesy of the Red, White, and Blue,” a post-9/11 song whose enthusiastic patriotism made national headlines...

Author: By Elizabeth W. Green, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Radioactive | 9/29/2005 | See Source »

...making, to a smaller but still significant extent, the Oxford and the New York Public Library available.) Already much trumpeted for speeding up global information access, the process of globalization would take a leap forward with this initiative, which involves the scanning and uploading of materials to a vast cyber-library. It would give universities around the world a much-increased access to information and knowledge...

Author: By The Crimson Staff, | Title: Technological Tomes | 9/29/2005 | See Source »

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