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...says something??about your trustworthiness when both Bill Clinton and George W. Bush choose you for a key post. As the longest-serving member of the Nuclear Regulatory Commission, the group that regulates the nuclear industry, Edward McGaffigan earned a reputation as a scholarly analyst who could be blunt and acerbic with critics. Asked whether new plants should be required to withstand rogue-airplane attacks, the Democrat offered, "When they change the law to require absolute assurance of perfect protection, there won't be a lot of nuclear reactors in this country. Also, there...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones Sep. 17, 2007 | 9/6/2007 | See Source »

Your article reminded me of something??I have thought about for many years. The political ads in which a candidate keeps repeating an opponent's name continually while listing all his negatives provides free advertising to the opposing candidate. The repetition grants name recognition to the wrong person. I believe it has the opposite effect of the one intended...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Inbox: Sep. 10, 2007 | 8/30/2007 | See Source »

...there something??Henry Kravis wants but can't afford to buy? Seems unlikely: according to Forbes, he's worth $2.6 billion. So is he addled by greed or what? Kravis, Stephen Schwarzman and other princes of private equity (the financial deal of the moment) have been visiting Congress and wielding their checkbooks in an effort to save a tax-code provision that allows them to pay an income tax of 15% rather than the normal top rate of 35%. Have they lost their minds...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Private-Equity Pigs | 7/19/2007 | See Source »

Adidas, Nike, Champion, Russell and Reebok have long bridged the gap between competitive sports and casual activewear. But increasingly, consumers want both function and fashion from their sportswear. Clothes need to do something???stretch, fight odor, wick moisture, regulate temperature?and look good as well. "We always saw athletic wear and style as mutually exclusive," says Julee Bean of Adidas. "And they don't need to be. You can wear our product in the gym but also wear it to get a latte and still look...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Motion Commotion | 9/11/2006 | See Source »

...courage" for most social progress: civil rights, campus reform, ecology, withdrawal from Viet Nam. But many have also been stunningly naive about drugs, the dangers of violence, the values of work and excellence. "It's fun to be responsive to our kids," says Winship. "They can teach us something???but so can we teach them a hell...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: When the Young Teach and the Old Learn | 8/17/1970 | See Source »

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