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It might not sound like the sexiest deal, but today the Federal Communication Commission (FCC) will auction off rights to the 700 MHz band of wireless spectrum - a sale that has the potential to create a seismic shift in the telecommunications landscape. The powerful band of prime cross-country airwaves...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Will Google Go Mobile? | 1/23/2008 | See Source »

Clemente Mastella unveiled the news with all the daring and chivalry of a medieval knight. The Justice Minister's honor - and particularly that of his wife, a local politician - had been sullied, he fumed, when a magistrate near their hometown east of Naples leveled influence-peddling charges at both of...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Dearth of Courage | 1/23/2008 | See Source »

"The struggle against climate change and the quest for secure, sustainable and competitive energy touches on every European, every day," said European Commission President José Manuel Barroso in announcing the ambitious plans. "This package is good for the planet, it's good for the European economy, and it's...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: EU Aims to Choke Carbon Emissions | 1/23/2008 | See Source »

After a key centrist ally yanked support this week from the fragile center-left government, Prodi no longer has a working majority in the Italian Senate. By virtually any reckoning in Italy's complex political arithmetic, this should spell government crisis - and, it would seem, the final bell for the...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Italy's Government Poised to Fall | 1/22/2008 | See Source »

So if it's unrealistic to think the murder rate could ever fall to zero, could murders in the quadruple digits be something we no longer have to endure? "No one knows for sure why crime rates fell in New York and Chicago, and in the absence of a blue...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: How Low Can the Crime Rate Go? | 1/18/2008 | See Source »

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