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...Democrats control Congress. They haven't ended or even slowed the war, but they did grill Prince: Are Blackwater employees bound by military codes of conduct? Why are they so much more expensive than troops? Why??do they keep causing international incidents? "People make mistakes," Prince said. "They do stupid things sometimes...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Mark of Trouble | 10/4/2007 | See Source »

When critics asked why??he bothered to invent an impractical human-powered flight machine, the keenly intellectual aeronautics engineer Paul MacCready, above, insisted that inventing anything--even if impractical--spawned something critically important: a new way of thinking about the world. In August 1977 the curious, free-spirited inventor unveiled his Gossamer Condor, a winged, 70-lb. (about 30 kg) contraption made of piano wire, aluminum tubing and Mylar, which completed the first sustained human-powered flight. "Your parents will be wrong. Your schools will be wrong," he told a group of schoolchildren in 1998. "If you look...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones Sep. 17, 2007 | 9/6/2007 | See Source »

...enjoyed columnist Joe Klein's "Why??Newt Is So Much Fun to Watch" [April 24], on Gingrich's tour in New Hampshire. I would vote for him for President in a New York minute. It's too bad he left Congress. Had he stayed, he would have pushed through the fiscal reforms that Republicans thought they were going to get when they elected Bush. The President would have had to use his veto early and often to keep Newt from eliminating a quarter of the federal programs and their related wasteful bureaucracies. And we would have already had a Mexican...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: May 15, 2006 | 5/7/2006 | See Source »

...families' grief and rage are hardly surprising. But it is not callous to wonder why???besides simple compassion?this story, like cave-in and child-down-a-well stories in the past, moved America to hold an electronic vigil. Soldiers are killed in Iraq, for instance, every week. They are no less brave, and their families grieve no less. But until the total reaches some grim round number, the stories recede from the front page and the top of the evening newscast...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Once More into the Depths | 1/8/2006 | See Source »

...easy to understand why??Trish and Andy Olson initially considered suing. But more than money, what the suburban St. Paul, Minn., couple wanted from the hospital was a genuine apology. Their son Owen, 7, born with spina bifida and a range of other birth defects, had already endured more than 40 operations by the time he was taken to the Children's Hospitals and Clinics of Minnesota for treatment of a suspected infection last fall. Because the staff on duty that night forgot to attach a catheter to Owen, doctors ended up having to take emergency action several hours later...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: When Doctors Say, "We're Sorry" | 8/8/2005 | See Source »

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