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P op I Dreamed a Dream Susan Boyle Columbia/Sony ** The dream is that you don't have to be a pretty young thing or a professional singer to become a big star. It came true for Susan Boyle, and for millions who got a huge vicarious thrill from her ...

From ROBERT EVERETT-GREEN, BRAD WHEELER AND ELISSA POOLE, Globe and Mail,  24 Nov 2009
Related Topics: Susan Boyle,  Sony,  Madonna

A Transportation Project that Pays for Itself

Los Angeles drivers may have the lead in wasted hours in traffic, according to a new study, but Beltway drivers are coming in a close second. 62 hours a year are lost on the roads around Washington, and plans to get them back are meeting a lot of ...

From ROBERT POOLE SHIRLEY YBARRA, Reason,  17 Aug 2009

Why the FAA Fails

SATURDAY'S helicopter-plane collision over the Hudson stems in part from the politicization of decisions about air safety and air traffic control, both of them the province of the Federal Aviation Administration. When a crash occurs, members of ...

From ROBERT POOLE, Reason,  11 Aug 2009
Related Topics: Robert Poole,  Joe Scarborough

Looking back at Earth

“We came all this way to the moon, and yet the most significant thing we’re seeing is our own home planet ...” Forty years after the first moonwalk, NASA has chosen to lead its anniversary coverage with Apollo 8 astronaut Bill Anders’ comment about the ...

From ROBERT POOLE, Lawrence Journal World,  22 Jul 2009
Related Topics: Neil Armstrong,  NASA,  Buzz Aldrin,  Edgar Mitchell

William F. Buckley, Jr., RIP

I received the news of Bill Buckley's death with a great sense of loss. No, he was not a major intellectual influence on my becoming a libertarian. I have to credit Robert Heinlein and Barry Goldwater and Ayn Rand for that. But since for most of us ...

From ROBERT POOLE, Reason,  27 Feb 2008
Related Topics: William F. Buckley, Jr.,  Bill Buckley,  Robert A. Heinlein,  Barry Goldwater,  Ayn Rand

Life in the Slow Lane

The potential of a toll booth-free America Send this article to: Try Reason's award-winning print edition today! Your first issue is FREE if you are not completely satisfied. ...

From ROBERT POOLE, Reason,  8 Nov 2007

On the road to nowhere / State's highway plan excluded private sector

Fifty years ago this week, President Dwight Eisenhower signed a bill creating our nation's Interstate highway system. Today, that system is aging and in desperate need of repair and expansion. And nowhere are those needs more evident than in ...

From ROBERT W. POOLE JR., San Francisco Chronicle,  25 Jun 2006

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