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Editor's Letter
feature When I’m in a masochistic mood, I survey the 8:03 into the city to see how many of my fellow drones are passing the time by reading. Only about half the people have their noses in newspapers, magazines, and (rarely) books. The rest are either dozing or en
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Editor's Letter
feature In a lab in Maryland, genetic scientists have built the first entirely man-made chromosome. Playing God, you might call it: They’ve built the complete DNA for a one-cell organism out of inanimate proteins. Some time in 2008, The Washington Post’s Rick Wei
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Editor's Letter
feature At a Christmas party I attended a year ago, the crowd gathered around the sliced ham started buzzing about Barack Obama. A guest said he’d heard Obama speak and was blown away; he had a spark, a charisma, that he hadn’t seen in a presidential candidate si
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Editor's Letter
feature Forget Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama. Forget Rudy Giuliani and Mike Huckabee. Right now, the most compelling presidential contender around is Stephen Colbert (see Page 21). It may seem preposterous that a comedian is running for the nation’s highest of
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Editor's Letter
feature Feeling stressed out? You’re in good company. The American Psychological Association released a survey last week showing that nearly a third of American adults suffer from extreme stress, due mostly to money and work pressures, followed closely by the str
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feature White House Press Secretary Dana Perino should have gone with “no comment.” Engaging in some good-natured bantering about her job on the NPR news quiz show last week, Perino confessed that when a question about the 1962 Cuban Missile Crisis came up during
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feature When you’re running for president, you’ll take any endorsement you can get—especially if it’s from a celebrity. In his uphill quest to overtake Hillary Clinton, Barack Obama is now stumping through Iowa with Oprah Winfrey, hoping that the queen of daytime
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Editor's Letter: A taste of our own medicine
feature Now that newspapers have fallen on hard times, the industry finds itself in the unusual position of being on the receiving end of well-intentioned, if sometimes mistaken, advice.
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Editor's Letter: When bad news is also good news
feature There is—there really is—a silver lining in the Wall Street meltdown.
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Editor's Letter: Cutting greenhouse gas emissions
feature In spite of their pledges and promises, the world’s industrialized nations are unlikely to take serious action to cut carbon emissions.
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Editor's Letter: The great American vacation
feature The great American vacation is slipping away. It is increasingly reduced to a couple of days tacked on to a long weekend.
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Editor's Letter: How stupid do they think we are?, How stupid are we?
feature What do AIU, Bank of America Home Loans, Ally Bank, AirTran, The Altria Group, and Xe have in common?
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Editor's Letter: Neda Agha-Soltan
feature Helen of Troy had a face that launched a thousand ships. In death, Neda’s face, too, has acquired force, though the extent, and consequences, of its political power are not yet clear.
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Editor's Letter: India's urban slums
feature A great deal of fanfare was made over the two child stars of Slumdog Millionaire when the shantytowns in which they lived were razed. What will become of their less famous neighbors?
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