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Still feeling--or worse still, wearing--the effects of those Super Bowl suds? You may not know when to stop, but other species do. When plied with alcohol (flat beer and gelatin shots, actually), lab rats avoid unsightly bulges by cutting back on other calories. The rats also quit after the equivalent of two to three beers. --By David Bjerklie
...after the U.S. and Europe reached a temporary agreement to avoid a trade war over aircraft subsidies, TIME's SALLY B. DONNELLY sat down with Boeing's CEO Harry Stonecipher in the 34th-floor executive conference room of the company's downtown Chicago headquarters. Despite the reprieve from a trade fight, he continued to question the launch-aid loans that Boeing's rival has historically received--and plans to continue to receive--from European governments. "Airbus is all grown up and making money," he says. "Why does it need subsidies?" Here's what else the 30-year aerospace veteran...
...symbol of the coming of age of 35-year-old Airbus and underscores that the world's two major commercial-airplane makers--Airbus and Boeing--are at each other's throats as never before. Although the U.S. government and the European Union reached a temporary deal last month to avoid a World Trade Organization (WTO) fight over government subsidies, the two sides were sniping at each other again less than 24 hours later. When Airbus CEO Noel Forgeard said aircraft launch aid (the no- or low-risk loans that European governments have historically provided the company to help finance plane...
...election is most assuredly not the end of our obligations in Iraq, and the administration should avoid the tempting opportunity to quickly declare “victory” and move on—something the president has had a penchant for in the past. At times like this, the inevitable call for significant troop withdrawals is heard, yet this would be precisely the wrong move. We are starting to make headway in the daunting task of establishing a functional democracy; what Iraq most needs now is increased stability so that the Iraqi people witness the real and definite benefits...
...hide behind Democrats who have warned about Social Security's solvency-Tim Penny, Bill Clinton, Pat Moynihan-didn't really help much. Perhaps he made a mistake by not selling the pain part of his plan more candidly. Despite the admonition of editorial boards, pols are right to avoid asking for pain from audiences. It almost never works. But in this case it might have. By offering up the dessert of giving everyone a mutual fund holder, he tacitly undermined his own efforts to make the case that there's a crisis. How can you deploy mushroom-cloud words like...