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...Journal, set up a training area near a sports stadium where people can practice driving on the flip side. Sept. 7 and 8 have been declared national holidays to help people ease into the new law. Leau Apisaloma, a village chief, told the Journal there's no cause for alarm: "In the beginning, it will be hard, but we'll learn - we're not stupid...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Why Don't We All Drive on the Same Side of the Road? | 9/5/2009 | See Source »

...proposed health-care reform. First, critics have launched the debate before UNESCO has even finished its recommendations, which are based on analysis of 80 different studies of sex-education programs. Second, they have broadcast sensational accusations of the offending proposal's intent to better grab the attention of - and alarm - the public. (See pictures of the health-care debate turning angry...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: U.S. Conservatives Attack UNESCO's Sex-Ed Guidelines | 9/3/2009 | See Source »

...political stuff," says Kevin Flynn, a New York-based stand-up who has a couple of Obama jokes in his repertoire but, like a lot of his colleagues, is still feeling his way along with the change in Administrations. But he doesn't think there's cause for alarm. "The first six months of Bill Clinton - and George Bush too - nothing much happened that could be made fun of. Everybody is waiting for Obama to do something or for the winds to change. It hasn't happened...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Comedy in the Obama Age: The Joking Gets Hard | 8/31/2009 | See Source »

...driving a truck, Blankfein's father took a night job sorting mail at the post office - "which in our neck of the woods was considered to be a very good job, because you couldn't lose it," Blankfein says. His mother worked as a receptionist at a burglar-alarm company - "one of the few growth industries in my neighborhood...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Rage Over Goldman Sachs | 8/31/2009 | See Source »

...scary news: A new estimate showed that that up to 90,000 Americans could die of H1N1 in the upcoming season; and a simultaneous report that the government was taking some unprecedented steps to get a vaccine ready in time. But the fatality numbers are more complicated - and less alarming - than they seem; and the vaccine report is less a reason for alarm than a sign of smart epidemiological planning...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Behind the Unproven H1N1 Flu Vaccine | 8/26/2009 | See Source »

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