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Dates: during 2000-2009
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The World Toilet Summit and Expo is like the Star Trek Convention of the waste management and sanitation world. Toilets on show run the gamut from a cardboard box complete with a hole, plastic bag and pouch of waterless magic pathogen-busting dust ($50), to a high-tech 'uber-toilet...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Is It Time to Kill Off the Flush Toilet? | 11/6/2008 | See Source »

Obama's far from the fastest off the mark, however; in 1976, Jimmy Carter created a transition staff shortly after winning the Pennsylvania primary - well before the Democratic National Convention in July. Under Jack Watson, who had worked on Carter's successful Georgia gubernatorial campaign, the transition team worked throughout...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Presidential Transitions | 11/6/2008 | See Source »

Hunter shares his movement's typical pro-life and anti-gay-marriage social commitments. But he became best known to the mainstream press in 2006 when an arrangement for him to take over as head of the Christian Coalition, the political machine founded by Pat Robertson, imploded as it became...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Who Is Joel Hunter, and Why Is Obama Praying with Him? | 11/6/2008 | See Source »

One of the first tests of whether that new spirit will prevail in Washington may be how Senate Democrats deal with Joe Lieberman, the Connecticut Senator who crossed the aisle to support John McCain in the election. During the campaign, Lieberman angered many in his longtime party by attacking Obama...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Traitor Among Us? The Dems' Lieberman Problem | 11/6/2008 | See Source »

At the moment Lehman Brothers collapsed in September, McCain led the campaign, riding high on a post-convention bounce. But as approval of President Bush plummeted to historic lows, and the electorate rejected a tainted Republican party, McCain found himself unable to control his own destiny. In the final weeks...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: In Defeat, McCain Offers Graceful End to Rough Campaign | 11/5/2008 | See Source »

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