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...Ironically," the authors write, "84% [of the women] believed that simulation information would allow them to make a more accurate forecast about a future date with a different...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: How to Predict What You'll Like? Ask a Stranger | 3/19/2009 | See Source »

...Citigroup and the like are overseas and not subject to U.S. taxes. But it's worth a try. If nothing else, it would give the outraged American electorate the sense that the responsible parties are paying for something closer to their fair share of the financial bailout. Which would allow us all to get back to the Important Things that Larry Summers and Tim Geithner (and I) would rather focus...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Upside of Anger | 3/19/2009 | See Source »

...communication regarding the case. American threats to withhold future information or comparably pressurizing statements are completely inappropriate and violate the respect deserved by America’s closest ally. The stereotyped depiction of a bullying United States is strongly associated with the Bush era; Obama should not allow this label to taint his administration...

Author: By Olivia M. Goldhill | Title: Between Our Safety and Our Ideals | 3/19/2009 | See Source »

...would take an interdisciplinary and global approach that more accurately reflects the fluxes in population, increased globalization, and cultural changes undergone by certain ethnic groups, according to committee member Michele Lamont, professor of sociology, European studies, and African and African American studies. The comprehensiveness of the new name would allow the committee to develop a “more integrated and broader” curriculum that could better accommodate students’ intellectual needs under a larger umbrella, Lamont said. Foster—a senior lecturer on folklore and mythology—added that faculty can likely use the name...

Author: By Esther I. Yi, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Faculty May Rename Dept. | 3/19/2009 | See Source »

Just in case, the Obama Administration has taken a separate approach that would allow the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) to move unilaterally on regulating greenhouse gases, without the need for congressional action. That process, however, is long and subject to court challenge without a legislative mandate. "It appears that the Administration is letting Congress take the lead while the EPA moves forward with welcome steps to combat global warming, like the proposed rules this week to create a registry for carbon-dioxide emissions," says John Walke, clear-air director of the Natural Resources Defense Council (NRDC). "The EPA has been...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Is Obama's Environmental Agenda Losing Out? | 3/18/2009 | See Source »

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