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...much patience for those, like Rep. Charles Rangel, D-N.Y., who want to bring back the draft to ensure that war's burdens are equally shared. "We're doing just fine, thank you, with the all-volunteer force," Mellinger says. "Until the time comes that we're in danger of losing our capabilities to do our missions, then we ought to stick with what we have - there is no need for the draft...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: America's Last Draftee: "I'm a Relic" | 2/7/2009 | See Source »

...bunkers. Some also painted furiously to preserve the landscape as it looked before the bombs and napalm. Nguyen Thanh Chau liked to capture the beauty of pink lotuses, malachite melaleuca trees and turquoise marshes under a lapis lazuli sky. "Whenever I saw a beautiful landscape, I forgot about the danger and stood up to draw," he writes...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Art of War | 2/5/2009 | See Source »

...Bill Clinton named him Deputy Attorney General. Holder's decision four years later to facilitate a presidential pardon of fugitive financier Marc Rich was a blunder, he later admitted. It revealed the danger that occurs when top officials forget that their job is not to accommodate political masters in the White House--an issue that dominated Holder's confirmation hearing...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Prosecutor | 2/5/2009 | See Source »

Enjoy the grilled salmon on your dinner plate - it may not be on the menu for long. As the demand for seafood continues to rise, fueled in part by the now global appetite for sushi, we're in danger of fishing out the oceans. Once-teeming fishing territory like the Grand Banks off the eastern coast of Canada have gone fallow, and highly coveted species like the Atlantic cod and the bluefin tuna are becoming increasingly rare. An influential study published in 2006 in the journal Science predicted that if fishing around the world continued at its present pace, fish...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: How Not to Save the Fish | 2/4/2009 | See Source »

...enterprises in China grew a mere 4.9%, down from 37% in the same period in 2007. "We're already seeing a huge swing in the fortunes of Chinese companies," Walker says. "When people see a very different investment environment, they actually cut their investment. That's the real danger China is facing at the moment...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Pundit: China's Economic Growth Could Stop | 2/3/2009 | See Source »

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