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...this point, a thought suddenly occurs to me. Why not write about what's most important to me as I graduate from Harvard? That's simple and to the point. No, it's not the honors diploma I'm leaving with, or the memories I have as co-editor of a big campus magazine. And no, it's not that I could have done better here had I received better advising, eaten better food or lived in a nicer room. Rather, simply stated, it's that I'm happy. That's right, happy. On the day I graduate from college...
...regulations are debated, new fears, curiously similar to those that spurred the original statutes, have already surfaced. Won't consumers be handed the short end of the stick if media giants are given free rein over the marketplace? Not necessarily, says TIME editor-at-large Daniel Okrent. "A lot of our concerns may be based on antiquated ideas of local ownership - even in small markets, there is very little in terms of truly localized ownership, and there hasn't been for years. Publishing giants like Knight-Ridder and Tribune already own the bulk of nation's papers." In other words...
...cautious about introducing it. In the U.S., the onus is on proving that something causes harm rather than proving that it's absolutely safe. So it comes down to a clash between the can-do American ethos and the more skeptical or cautious European one." Adds TIME science editor Phillip Elmer-DeWitt, "In the U.S., the FDA has sufficient scientific prestige that the public will generally trust its assessment of any dangers involved in consuming particular foods, but in Europe there's no equivalent body to the FDA." And maybe they'd be more receptive to that idea than...
ROGER ROSENBLATT and ANDREW CARROLL contributed to our Memorial Day cover stories. Rosenblatt, a TIME editor-at-large, writes about how the U.S. memorializes its dead, focusing on the new monument to the Oklahoma City bombing victims. "Over the years memorials have changed from generals on horseback to public places designed to affect feeling," says Rosenblatt. Carroll provides us with the final letters written by American soldiers who were later killed in combat. He began collecting such memorabilia after his parents' Washington home burned down, and now heads the nonprofit all-volunteer Legacy Project, which collects and preserves war letters...
...example of what TIME DIGITAL is designed to do well--explain the technology, steer the reader and cut through all the technical stuff to what's important on a practical level."We're looking at these products with the same eye as the consumer," she adds. Says TIME DIGITAL editor Joshua Quittner: "There's really no magazine like this that serves the average consumer in such a practical way." TIME DIGITAL is available online at Timedigital.com at newsstands and through subscription by calling...