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...believe it will ultimately win in court. Either way, the telemarketers won't easily shrug off public ire. "All the telemarketers will have done is increase [the list's] size by 50%," FTC chairman Timothy Muris told TIME. But the fight could take months--at least--as the courts weigh consumer-privacy claims against constitutional protections on commercial speech. For now, do-not-call remains on hold. --By Eric Roston
Summers did not explicitly weigh in on the controversial debate over mandatory school testing...
...Unlike the seven U.S. astronauts on the pioneering Mercury mission, who became heroes before they even lofted skyward, the identity of only two of China's 14 taikongyuan, or "space pilots," has been released. All that ordinary Chinese know about them is they're each about 1.7 m tall, weigh 65 kg and served as jet-fighter test pilots who "are No. 1 in physical status and psychological quality," according to statements by senior space official Zhang Houying...
...school. As we grow up, it becomes a more dangerous prospect. But white-collar boxing is fairly innocent: you're not going to get badly hurt because the other guy's probably as incompetent as you." Equally important, the level of Rocky fantasy fulfillment is high: the ceremonial weigh-ins. The bucket to spit in. The theme song when you enter the ring. The nicknames. (Where else could a middle-aged white guy be called "Baby-Faced Assassin"?) The sport has become ubiquitous enough that it's reached the agony-aunt columns. In June a woman wrote...
Finally, the current debate about the future of Medicare has almost completely ignored the need to solve some of the program’s long-term financial problems. Politicians are avoiding the painful choices discussed by national commissions assigned to weigh the options. Commission reports usually include some combination of recommendations that include increasing the retirement age, requiring seniors to pay a larger share of Medicare costs out-of-pocket, means-testing benefits, increasing payroll taxes and reducing payments to doctors and hospitals for treating people covered by Medicare...