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...Ageless Herbs' Curing Pills, which profess to clear up a case of H1N1 • Swine Flu Protection Gloves from Emergency Disaster Systems, which would protect wearers from infection • Super Immune Booster from Wellness Resources, which claims to make you immune to the disease • Swine Flu Advisor - my personal favorite - an electronic device that claims to use "photobiotic energy" and "deeply penetrating mega-frequency life-force energy waves" to strengthen the immune system and prevent H1N1 infection...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Psst! Want a Cure for H1N1? Swine Flu Scams | 6/26/2009 | See Source »

...problem is that it's not clear how Oberstar's draft bill, which transit advocates argue still needs to be strengthened, will be fully funded, and the Obama Administration has urged a more modest bill in the short term. It's clear, however, that if the nation has any real interest in reducing driving, unclogging our roads and cutting back on the carbon emissions that come from transportation, we need to get serious about overhauling our antiquated public-transit system - and that will cost billions. "Failing to fix this will be unacceptable," says Goldberg...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Metro Crash: A Nation's Aging Transit System | 6/26/2009 | See Source »

...let’s be clear about something, I don’t favor a lot of Berlusconi’s policy, but I have to agree with him here: What politicians do in their bedrooms is, frankly, none of the public’s business. My internship requires that I read the Italian papers daily and follow the wires from ANSA (Italy’s version of the AP). While I enjoy this part of my job, I do not want to read anymore about the Italian prime minister’s prostate. As long as he is having...

Author: By Sofia E. Groopman | Title: When Sex Shouldn’t Matter | 6/26/2009 | See Source »

...What is becoming clear is that the fossil-fuel-fed industrial era is ending and that the leading power of that age, the U.S., might not be able to maintain its economic dominance. New Energy Finance, a provider of information and analysis on low-carbon technologies, estimates that investment in clean energy in Europe last year reached nearly $50 billion. The figure for North America is a much lower $30 billion. (Read more about the green-energy ideas out there...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Asia Challenges the U.S. for Green-Tech Supremacy | 6/25/2009 | See Source »

...seems clear that Obama's carefully calibrated remarks about the events in Iran were intended to address the Uncle Napoleon factor, and also to keep the door open for negotiations with the Khamenei-Ahmadinejad regime. It seems equally clear that the criticism from Senator John McCain and other neoconservatives was, in part, an emotional response to the events in the streets, but also an effort to score political points against a popular President and, long term, an attempt to prevent any negotiations with Iran from taking place. McCain won and lost during the course of the battle: the terrible events...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Can the U.S. Deal with a Divided Iran? | 6/25/2009 | See Source »

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