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...wink off in major metropolitan areas now doubt looked impressive, but it's worth asking: What was the point? As Roberts himself noted, the energy saved by turning off the lights for an hour "won't make an enormous difference." So, if it won't cut carbon emissions, why bother then with Earth Hour, or Earth Day or Earth Live, last year's daylong concert for the environment...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Earth Hour '08: Did It Matter? | 3/27/2008 | See Source »

Best not to bother Dan Maccallum on Grand Prix day. On March 16, as the cars lined up on the grid in Melbourne, the Sydney solicitor and father of two began his season's viewing in exactly the way he has always done: no one but him in the house, and a large Supreme pizza delivered just before the start of the race. "I was rude to my family in the morning," he says. "I reminded them that they'd promised to go away for a couple of hours in the afternoon." What does he love about F1? Screaming engines...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Showing Their Metal | 3/27/2008 | See Source »

...epithets to noble young black doctor Sidney Poitier, in No Way Out (where he has a wonderfully sniveling final scene). Sam Fuller cast him as the pickpocket in the memorably lurid Pickup on South Street. Sometimes he was the lowlife who found someone even lower, as in Don't Bother to Knock, where he gets tangled with crazed babysitter Marilyn Monroe...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Richard Widmark: Screen Goon, Real World Gent | 3/26/2008 | See Source »

...than simply order that it be studied quietly.* Clark warned Reagan on the day of the speech that he could expect criticism, even from within his Administration, for precipitately suggesting such a radical change in strategy. "It won't be the first time," the President replied. "It doesn't bother...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Archive: Reagan for the Defense | 3/21/2008 | See Source »

Sunseeker built 318 boats last year, but Braithwaite doesn't expect to better that pace five years from now. Why bother? He can keep revenues climbing by building bigger instead. Rapid growth in Asia, the Middle East and Eastern Europe, particularly Russia, is taking up the slack in the U.S. and Western Europe, where sales are softer. "An explosion in the client base" of high-net-worth individuals is generating sales, says Vincenzo Cannatelli, Ferretti's CEO. These aren't people who flinch at high fuel costs. "Many of our customers are making money from the price of oil," Cannatelli...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Full Speed Ahead | 3/20/2008 | See Source »

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