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...shell out $7.6 million on a cloud seeding experiment is a worthwhile risk. "If it proves to do something, then it has to have some benefit," she says. "If we're seeing such weird weather - if we're going to have to pump water all over Australia via huge pipelines - wouldn't it be wiser to find another way?" she asks. "It would be worth...
...thinking. And I didn't start out that way. I'm certainly open to persuasion that these private-equity deals are on balance a good thing, that they clear the cobwebs from dusty corners of the economy. But that doesn't mean they need or deserve a huge tax break. Tax breaks aren't free. Lower taxes on Stephen Schwarzman mean either higher taxes on somebody else or a bigger national debt...
...truly a mystery. Peter G. Peterson, a co-founder of the Blackstone Group, was one of the great deficit bores of the 1980s and 1990s, warning about the huge gap between what society had promised people and what would be available to keep those promises. (He was right, but it was still boring.) Peterson made $1.88 billion when Blackstone went public last month. Here was an opportunity for statesmanship that you would have thought Peterson would be unable to resist. Like Warren Buffett and Bill Gates Sr., he could be the rich man who speaks the truth to other rich...
...head, I had been expecting to have all the problems you read about--the heart problems, secondary cancers--all that stuff," says Dyer. But a recent evaluation at Sloan-Kettering indicated that Dyer so far shows no signs of the complications she had dreaded. "It was a huge relief," she says. So this Aug. 27, she will celebrate another year of being not only cancer-free but also healthy. Three years ago, to honor a decade of cancer liberation, Dyer went skydiving. "I just felt a sense of exhilaration, of really living life and not wasting moments by being afraid...
...other school, it's just as clear that the only possible course is to continue to fight for as long as it takes. Espoused by Bush Administration officials, the contention of this group is that by withdrawing from Iraq, we'd unleash a bloodbath, hand al-Qaeda and Iran huge victories, destabilize the Persian Gulf and empower terrorists everywhere to attack our allies and our homeland. In the face of those dangers, say the White House and its backers, America has no choice but to remain in Iraq until a democracy emerges from the chaos of the Middle East...