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Quick off the blocks, Obama will still be hard-pressed to best the prolific appointers of ages past. The one to beat is George Washington - who, admittedly, had a bit of a leg up, starting the Supreme Court, as he did, from scratch. One of the first bills ever to...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Which Presidents Have Picked the Most Supremes? | 4/13/2010 | See Source »

From there, the numbers taper off. Dwight D. Eisenhower, Ulysses S. Grant and Abraham Lincoln each had five wins; Benjamin Harrison, Warren G. Harding, Harry S. Truman and Nixon, four. All in all, U.S. Presidents have submitted 159 nominations to the court. One hundred twenty-three were confirmed, and seven...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Which Presidents Have Picked the Most Supremes? | 4/13/2010 | See Source »

Ramps are further proof, if any were needed, that food isn't just food anymore. I don't actually believe ramps are any better or more wild-tasting than garlic chives or 860 other related wild onions that nobody pays attention to. If you take any random greens and pickle...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: For Foodies, Ramps Are the New Arugula | 4/13/2010 | See Source »

There's also the fact that, until recently, ramps were hard to get. Aside from their short window of availability (two to three weeks, max), a lot of markets simply didn't have them. Do a search for ramps on the Chowhound discussion boards, and over the course of a...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: For Foodies, Ramps Are the New Arugula | 4/13/2010 | See Source »

The nation's top 25 oxycodone-dispensing doctors were all in Florida in the first half of 2008; 18 of them were in Broward County, according to a Broward County state attorney grand-jury report. In South Florida overall, there were 176 pill mills, up from 66 just 14 months...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Invasion of the Pill Mills in South Florida | 4/13/2010 | See Source »

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