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When I wrote for Salon, the FTR (full traffic report) would arrive in my e-mail like the bluebird of low self-esteem. A hit-count list of the previous day's articles, it would range from tens of thousands (say, a cover story on a sex scandal) to a few thousand or less (say, mine). The writers' room in hell has a similar setup. There's nothing to make you question your career goals like discovering that your take on the post-Tina Brown New Yorker was empirically proved to be 10 times less interesting than Jennifer Lopez...
...most freely elected parliament in Iranian history took up its duties in a marble-sided edifice in downtown Tehran. In the biggest boost for reform since Khatami's victory in 1997, Iranians in February ousted conservatives and handed Khatami control of the 290-seat Majlis-e Shura. The mullah count in this new, moderate parliament is down from 53 to 33. And among the deputies taking their seats were an actor-politician in Western blue jeans and women M.P.s, daringly dressed in head scarves rather than chadors...
...person in a nursing facility," a strapped nation will, Reuben concludes, have to choose between caring for its children or its parents. Have you ever noticed how the elderly in your town vote when a proposal to raise property taxes to pay for education hits the local ballot? Count on it: this time, through the scrupulous, if self-interested, exercise of their franchise, boomers will yank the reins of society out of the hands of their children. In every other sphere, we may be every bit as faded as a poster from the original Woodstock. But here, in one final...
...nonbattlefield U.S. military deaths--20,617--that occurred worldwide during the three-year conflict to the more than 33,000 U.S. battlefield dead in Korea. But only 3,275 of those nonbattlefield deaths--largely due to accidents or disease--occurred in Korea. That yields the new, revised U.S. death count for the war. In a rare example of interservice cooperation, a Pentagon memo notes, "All service historian offices have been advised...and are in agreement with the revision...
...Everybody should just stay calm," says John Dilulio Jr., a University of Pennsylvania political-science professor and co-author of the book Body Count. Dilulio is known for his dire predictions of a new wave of juvenile violent crime, but even he is not moved by the recent glitches in some cities' murder rates. Give it 18 more months, he says, then we'll talk...