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...economy, where can a cash-strapped team training for the Winter Olympics turn for help? Stephen Colbert. Seriously. On Monday night's Colbert Report, the mock-blowhard host of the Comedy Central show announced that he will ask his loyal fans to donate money to the U.S. Speedskating team, whose largest commercial cash sponsor, Dutch bank DSB, just went belly-up. (Colbert snarkily referred to DSB as "Deposit Savings in Bong.") In exchange for the publicity and potential revenue, Colbert Nation logos will be stitched onto the suits of both long-track and short-track skaters during World Cup competitions...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Colbert to the Rescue: Can He Save U.S. Speedskating? | 11/3/2009 | See Source »

Michael D. Lemonick is the senior science writer at Climate Central...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Why Are Kilimanjaro's Glaciers Fading? | 11/3/2009 | See Source »

...McDonnell is as conservative as they come: pro-life, pro-gun, antitax, pro-small government. But from the get-go his central message has been about jobs, and that has helped him come across as less threatening to moderates and independents in the state. "We certainly have our own [intra-party] food fights here," says Phil Coz, McDonnell's campaign manager. "But it didn't take a genius to understand that jobs and the economy were the No. 1 issue from Day One." (See an Election Day primer...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Virginia Race Gives Republicans a Blueprint for Success | 11/3/2009 | See Source »

Bombing outside the Central Investigation Agency...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The World | 11/2/2009 | See Source »

...effort by China to assert its presence on the rim of the subcontinent, where India has long been the acknowledged superpower. In both Pakistan and Sri Lanka, the Chinese are funding new ports. The Chinese Foreign Minister visited Nepal last December to launch construction of a new highway connecting central Nepal to China, and soon after, China announced plans to extend a controversial railway to Tibet as far as the border with Nepal. India is countering: after Beijing agreed to develop a massive copper field in Afghanistan, New Delhi pledged more than $1 billion in development aid to Kabul. (Download...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: China Vs. India: Will Rivalry Lead to War? | 11/2/2009 | See Source »

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