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...amuck is the proliferation of earmarks--spending placed in legislation, often without public review, for specific projects. "Beating up on lobbyists is easy to do, but we have to put our own house in order, and at the top of that list is earmark reform," says Republican Congressman Jeff Flake of Arizona. The most famous recent earmark was last fall's so-called Bridge to Nowhere--a provision that Representatives from Alaska inserted into a bill to spend close to $223 million to make it easier to reach a virtually uninhabited area of the state. In the end, the money...
...vulnerability to Mother Nature's wrath with our suffering and violence at the hands of our fellow human beings, those images of death and destruction do more than etch a small piece of history into our minds; they carve out in our hearts a warning for the future. Jeff Michaud East Hartford, Connecticut...
...vulnerability to Mother Nature's wrath with our suffering and violence at the hands of our fellow human beings, those images of death and destruction do more than etch a small piece of history into our minds; they carve out in our hearts a warning for the future. Jeff Michaud East Hartford, Connecticut, U.S. What striking photos you picked! What an amazing year! I don't remember being so affected by a series of magazine pictures since the tumultuous year of 1968. The image shown on the cover, of the New Orleans Garden District aflame, reminded me of a Currier...
...memory. But even those rote actions involve a tremendous amount of mental processing; they are just happening too fast for the athlete to realize they are going on. "It's not the conscious kind of processing, the kind where you're thinking about how to control your body," says Jeff Simons, a sports psychologist at California State University, East Bay. "Our conscious brain cannot keep up with the speed of information processing necessary to perform a high-level skill...
...humorist Dave Barry, 58, may have stopped writing his weekly column a year ago, but he managed to scrounge together some thoughts for his 27th book, out next week, Dave Barry's Money Secrets: Like: Why Is There a Giant Eyeball on the Dollar? He spoke with TIME's Jeff Chu on Neil Diamond, the state of newspapers and his own endless run for the presidency...