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...wind comes in the same direction for months. When you're doing that, you get your eight or 12 hours of sleep. Make food. I had a blog going on my website. I'd read up on the next port I was going to. Do some studying. Read a book...
...weigh in on the health-reform debate in a soothing bedside manner. He's packing plenty of vitriol for both critics of President Obama's health-care proposals and the special interests jockeying for seats at the negotiating table. The former governor talked to TIME about his new book, Howard Dean's Prescription for Real Healthcare Reform, political wrangling over bills circulating in Congress and why bipartisanship is for suckers...
...your book, you talk about how someone's age determines his attitude toward having health insurance. You say the federal government should provide free coverage to everyone under 30. That's pretty radical. It's incredibly cheap. Statistically, only two expensive things happen to people under 30: one is a malignancy and the other is an accident. Everything else is mostly preventive maintenance and it's very inexpensive. But this is not what's going to be passed. I'm a very big fan of Obama's bill...
Wizard rock is just one aspect of a subtle transformation that's taking place in the world of Harry Potter fandom. Two years after the last book was released, it's still going strong, and it's showing signs of taking on a life of its own as a cultural movement in its own right. Potter fan fiction continues to flow onto the Net, extending the Potterverse out toward the horizon in all directions, with the blessing of J.K. Rowling. There are two Harry Potter conventions this year, LeakyCon in Boston in May and Azkatraz in San Francisco in July...
...themes of their music are the themes of the books: love and friendship, angst and struggle. "We think, What does Harry Potter go through?" Paul says. "If I was a teenager, and I was going through this, what kind of songs would I be writing? So when Harry's love life goes sour after a date with Cho Chang, you write a song about that. Or he discovers this awesome potions book with all these secrets in it, and he's totally pumped. You write a song about that...