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...didn't see the idea of "Common Wealth" that was a part of last year's cover story [March 24, 2008]. Why? Is the challenge of cutting extreme poverty, hunger and disease - the defining challenge of the 21st century - no longer important, or has it perhaps already been accomplished? The global economic crisis that started at the end of 2008 will certainly go on for at least four more years, intensifying the problems of extreme poverty, hunger and disease. Rubens Amaral, RIO DE JANEIRO, BRAZIL...
...animal species that existed during Earth's history are gone. There may be at least 8 million species of life on the planet right now, but there are many millions more that exist only as fossils or in the mind's eye of zoologists. In this week's cover story for our annual Environment issue, Bryan Walsh writes that there have been five great waves of extinction in the planet's history--the most recent being 65 million years ago when the dinosaurs bit the dust. Now, he suggests, we may be entering the sixth. Some 1 in 4 mammals...
...have known for decades: we're a lot more irrational than we realize; we avoid pain more than we seek comfort; we tend to stick with the status quo; and we like to conform with our peers. Michael got interested in this idea when he was reporting his January cover story on energy efficiency. He later discovered that during Obama's election effort, there was a secret consortium of the nation's leading behaviorists who were advising the campaign. Now the Administration boasts a number of senior members--including Budget Director Peter Orszag and regulatory-czar nominee Cass Sunstein...
...Were they sent by the devil, as some local Evangelical preachers argued? The killers had a version of their story too, which they told in the journals and videos they left behind. They believed they were two living gods trapped in a world of zombies. (See TIME's 1999 cover story about Columbine...
...TIME's 2008 cover story on the Columbine Effect...