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...softly, but consensus existed long before the arrival of firebrand Ahmadinejad, who makes the case in louder, more menacing tones. There's certainly disagreement over how much Iran should risk in running this course, and what incentives it should settle for in suspending it altogether. But there is a core belief here that without a nuclear program, Iran will be blocked from consolidating its growing influence in the region...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Solving the Riddles of Iran | 8/21/2006 | See Source »

...results also reflect the value of good data collection and verification--a core competency in the oil business that translates well in the public-health arena. Satellite imagery like that Marathon used to site its natural-gas processing complex helped determine how the sprayers should organize their visits. Teams of Equatoguineans collect and test mosquitoes from traps in various homes to see where adjustments need to be made. Information about family health, mosquito numbers and geopositional locations is recorded on the spot with handheld wireless devices and transmitted to a centralized location...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: corporate responsibility: Marathon Fights Malaria | 8/20/2006 | See Source »

...Jose, Calif. Now we are staring at the tree with binoculars from a distance of about 20 ft. Is the owl not home? Is it using some owl camouflage power on us? Is this even the right tree? In the past hour Franzen, 47, who's a pretty hard-core bird watcher, has already spotted California quail, some towhees, a scrub jay, a flicker and a few acorn woodpeckers. So far no owl, though...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: How Jonathan Franzen Learned To Stop Worrying (Sort Of) | 8/20/2006 | See Source »

...hair gels, no spray-on deodorants - and its producers may perhaps count themselves lucky in a release date that coincides with a spike in in-flight anxiety. Or maybe not. Maybe no one wants to reminded just now of the underlying fragility of our travel arrangements. But its core audience - teen-agers out for a good time on a Saturday night - are not, as a rule frequent fliers, and I suspect that they'll have some fun with Snakes on a Plane. The director, David R. Ellis, is not exactly Alfred Hitchcock - he's often messy in his stagings...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Hype on a Plane | 8/18/2006 | See Source »

...core purposes of the Stone Barns Center is to convince restaurateurs that they can get more of their products from local farms (whether they own them or not). More ambitiously, the center also hopes to convince farmers who now sell to big food processors or Wal-Marts that they can, instead, grow most of what a local restaurant needs - not just vegetables but meat, too - while improving their soil and making money...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Farm-to-Table Fetish | 8/15/2006 | See Source »

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