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...written by geoscientists Gerta Keller of Princeton University and Thierry Addate of the University of Lausanne, in Switzerland. Both researchers knew that challenging the impact doctrine would not be easy. The asteroid charged with killing the dinosaurs, after all, left more than the Chicxulub crater as its calling card. At the same 65-million-year depth, the geologic record reveals that a thin layer of iridium was deposited pretty much everywhere in the world. Iridium is an element that's rare on Earth but common in asteroids, and a fine global dusting of the stuff is precisely what...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Maybe an Asteroid Didn't Kill the Dinosaurs | 4/27/2009 | See Source »

Orson Scott Card Card is the author of Magic Street, Ender's Game and the Women of Genesis series Tyler Perry's plays and movies speak from and to the black community, but his message reaches far beyond. Starting with nothing, he built his empire on faith, hope and loyalty; his Madea keeps us sane by blurting out the secret thoughts of civilized people...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The TIME 100 | 4/27/2009 | See Source »

...That late-inning rally that had been Harvard’s calling card of late finally came in the de facto title game—but it came up short...

Author: By Kate Leist, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: TO SAY THE LEIST: Harvard Can't Come Up With Final Rally | 4/27/2009 | See Source »

...popular president taking on a reviled industry should get what he wants, in principle, especially when he's working with a sympathetic Congress. But it's not so clear Barack Obama will be able to deliver on his promises of clamping down on credit card abuses, thanks to the banking industry's experienced Washington lobbyists and their plans to limit proposed restrictions on their business...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: How the Banks Plan to Limit Credit-Card Protections | 4/27/2009 | See Source »

...tough bill that would largely prevent issuers like Bank of America, Citibank, JP Morgan Chase, Capital One and American Express from raising rates on customers even when cardholders miss payments or their credit rating tanks. "Americans do not deserve to be pushed down the economic ladder by credit card companies," Dodd said as he rolled out the bill, "It's wrong, it's unfair, and it must...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: How the Banks Plan to Limit Credit-Card Protections | 4/27/2009 | See Source »

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