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Brady says he doesn't think Rozsa wanted to kill Morales. But Rozsa's dramatic end seemed to cap off a turbulent life. Born in 1960 to a Bolivian mother and a Hungarian Jewish father, Rozsa left Bolivia at an early age, living in Chile and then Sweden. He moved on to Hungary, where he finished college and held several odd jobs, including, according to Hungarian newspaper reports, becoming the translator for international terrorist Carlos the Jackal. In 1991, Rozsa turned to journalism and arrived to cover the Balkans War for the BBC World Service and a Spanish newspaper...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Bolivia: The Bizarre Life and Death of a Failed Assassin | 4/21/2009 | See Source »

...both magnitude and probability, climate change is an enormous problem" - no one actually wants the EPA to regulate greenhouse gases. Not even Jackson or Obama, both of whom have repeatedly stated that they would much prefer Congress to set limits on greenhouse gas emissions directly, most likely through a cap-and-trade program. Most environmentalists feel the same way. The problem is getting cap-and-trade passed in Congress; most Republicans are against it on the grounds that it might hurt the economy by raising energy prices in the short term, and many Democrats from states with lots of polluting...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: EPA's CO2 Finding: Putting a Gun to Congress's Head | 4/18/2009 | See Source »

...every observer believes the implicit threat of EPA regulation will be enough to force cap-and-trade opponents to fall in line. After all, the main criticism of cap-and-trade is that it may result in a rise in energy prices as carbon becomes more expensive (indeed, making fossil fuels more costly relative to clean renewable fuels is the point). Advocates argue that new green jobs created by acting on climate change will more than offset the price of cap-and-trade and that, in any case, the long-term cost of delaying on global warming will...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: EPA's CO2 Finding: Putting a Gun to Congress's Head | 4/18/2009 | See Source »

Dressed in jeans, boots and a baseball cap with a camouflage peak and a hunting outfitter's logo, the Texas governor was one of the few major politicians to appear at the tea parties across the country. While crowds yelled "Secede! Secede!," Perry - 60 but telegenic and youthful - thought out loud that secession might be the outcome if Washington does not mend its "oppressive" high-spending, dictatorial ways. (Most experts say the notion that Texas can legally secede is mistaken, but the state does have the right to split into five states, offering the prospect of 10 U.S. Senators, math...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: What's All That Secession Ruckus in Texas? | 4/18/2009 | See Source »

Facebook has long had a 5,000 friend limit, mainly for reasons of space limits. The recent change to the “new” facebook was expected to increase or eliminate the cap, but apparently it didn’t. The cap isn’t a problem for us because we aren’t so loved...

Author: By FlyByBlog | Title: Mankiw Facebook Fail | 4/17/2009 | See Source »

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