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This inconvenience is slowly turning into a legitimate danger; about 27.1 percent of the nation’s 590,750 bridges are rated by the American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE) to be either “functionally obsolete” or “structurally deficient.?...

Author: By Dana A. Stern | Title: Rebuild from the Roads Up | 11/18/2008 | See Source »

It was the international community that came to the aid of the school victims, just as they did the storm victims. After the hurricane, overseas volunteers helped clear roads, reconstruct bridges, and flew in to distribute much needed supplies. But hundreds of thousands of people live in remote areas that...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Schools Collapse, and Haiti's Woes Continue | 11/16/2008 | See Source »

A bailout won't spare GM or its workers pain. Assuming the government bridges GM to the future - or provides debtor-in-possession financing in a bankruptcy - there is still a ton of restructuring to do. The company operates 21 plants in North America and has three more that are...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Is General Motors Worth Saving? | 11/13/2008 | See Source »

Stevens treated the verdict like just another feature of a re-election campaign, claiming "prosecutorial misconduct" and vowing to "fight this unjust verdict with every ounce of energy I have." It is possible that in Alaska, with oil prices tanking, voters could decide that their state will have a hard...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Last Stand | 10/31/2008 | See Source »

The world of independent music is getting smaller. Or, to put it more clearly, that once-expansive, comb-like maze filled with hidden experiments, sounds, and genres has been excavated and magnified to the point where it no longer has discernible features or points of reference. Iconic labels like SST...

Author: By Ryan J. Meehan, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Deerhunter | 10/31/2008 | See Source »

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