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Editor's Letter
feature When I heard that Charlton Heston had died, I called my younger brother. We talked for several animated minutes about the brawny action star with whom we’d grown up—the jut-jawed monolith who survived an earthquake, single-handedly stood down a planet of
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Editor's Letter
feature Michelle Obama is one accomplished woman. A graduate of Princeton and Harvard Law School, she’s worked for a top-notch law firm and for the city of Chicago. Now she’s a high-powered hospital executive, a firebrand on the stu
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feature Think about the upcoming Olympic Games in China, and you’re bound to think of Tibet. Pro-Tibetan activists have succeeded in making the Buddhist region, occupied by China since 1950, part of any conversation about the Beijing Olympics. Some of this global
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Editor's Letter
feature As oil coats the coastlines of San Francisco Bay and Russia’s Black Sea, its cost is shooting toward $100 a barrel. Pump prices around the country are heading to new records. Yet even if we end up with $5-a-gallon gas, we’ll still be paying less than peop
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Editor's Letter
feature British Prime Minister Gordon Brown is probably sorry he asked. The British certainly have a glorious history and no shortage of stiff upper lips and other laudable national traits. But it turns out that they lack a national motto. So Brown recently invit
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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 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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Editor's Letter
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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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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