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...Cancer spreads throughout the world because we release chemicals into the water, air and soil. The chemicals we spray on our crops contaminate our ground - water, while acid rain pollutes our freshwater supplies. Worse, First World countries use dyes, preservatives and other chemical additives in every facet of food production. We cause our own deaths with the poisons we inject into our food. Frosty Wooldridge, LOUISVILLE, COLO...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Every Nation's Race for a Cure | 10/24/2007 | See Source »

Huston's benevolent gesture was a sentiment decades ahead of its time. Today, gold and other precious-metal mining companies are extracting bounties of ore, leaving behind scarred mountainsides, toxic acid-rock runoffs and waste-rock dumps - and although much of the damage is on public land, the mining operations, most of which are multinationals, are not required to pay royalties on precious-metals production, and many escape liability for environmental restoration...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Making Gold Miners Pay | 10/23/2007 | See Source »

...Cancer spreads throughout the world because we release chemicals into the water, air and soil. The chemicals we spray on our crops contaminate our groundwater, while acid rain pollutes our freshwater supplies. Worse, First World countries use dyes, preservatives and other chemical additives in every facet of food production. We cause our own deaths with the poisons we inject into our food. Frosty Wooldridge, Louisville, Colorado...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Inbox | 10/19/2007 | See Source »

...keep your friends close and your enemies closer.” To accomplish this mission, we approached some of the Square’s most notorious bouncers to learn the tricks of the trade. FM first visited the oft-frequented Hong Kong Restaurant, best known for acid-colored scorpion bowls and its close scrutiny of all who enter. Travis, 23, has bounced at the Kong for almost two months, frequently turning away underage visitors (for whom he, doesn’t have much sympathy). “They’ll be back the next...

Author: By Julia M. Spiro, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Bouncing in the Square | 10/10/2007 | See Source »

...sense, yes. Honestly, I think in 20 years we're going to look back at this and laugh. Not in the sense that we were on to something that wasn't a problem. But a little bit like people worried intensely about acid rain. Acid rain was a problem. It was not the end of the world, as it was very often said...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Let's Chill About Global Warming | 9/28/2007 | See Source »

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