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...political correctness, novelist Robin Cook on how scientist J. Craig Venter may be coming close to inventing a living thing. The maestro of those pairings is deputy managing editor Adi Ignatius, who presides over the TIME 100 issue and orchestrates not only the choices but also who will write about whom. He was ably helped by editors Belinda Luscombe, Bobby Ghosh, Bill Saporito, Jeffrey Kluger and Amy Sullivan. Deputy art director D.W. Pine came up with the elegant design, and the resourceful TIME photo department masterminded the beautiful images. And those of you who took part in our online poll...
...brush it off as a result of sleep deprivation, a new study says that you’re not to blame—technology is. A report, published last week cooperatively by the Pew Internet & American Life Project and the College Board’s National Commission on Writing, found that two-thirds of high school students frequently use common e-mail, instant message, and text message slang in their academic writing. Students who have blogs or are members of social networking sites like Facebook and MySpace were found to be 15 percent more likely to use informal writing styles...
...This left General Sanchez in charge of operations in Iraq with a staff that had been focused at the operational and tactical level, but was not trained to operate at the strategic/operational level." He went on to write that neither he nor anyone higher in the Administration knew these orders had been issued, and that he was dumbfounded when he learned that Gen. McKiernan was out of the country and in Kuwait, and that the forces would be drawn down to a level of about 30,000 by September. "I did not know that Sanchez was in charge," he wrote...
...authors are not recommending that the gun law be repealed, though they do write of their hope that their findings might give policymakers "greater confidence" in approaching firearms policy in the future. "We've set out to scientifically investigate what was happening [with gun deaths] before and after 1996," she says. "We are simply presenting the evidence as it stands." The new Kevin Rudd-led Labor government has no plans to review the existing laws...
...bring as a chance to not only make new pleas for information, but to perhaps rehabilitate their shaky image. Hence, the access they gave the documentary filmmaker for ITV, a major British channel, and a subsequent inteview they gave to the BBC. Moreover, the McCanns now say they may write a book to tell their side of things. "We receive dozens of requests for book deals and may consider them in the future," says Sonia Beldom, a spokesperson for the couple. News reports say a book contract could be worth $2 million. Certainly other books are in the offing, both...