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Officially, the quake measured 8.8 on the Richter scale - powerful enough, NASA announced, to shift the earth's axis and shorten the planet's day. But in the face of such awesome power, the death toll remained relatively low: 799 as of March 3. By contrast, more than 200,000 Haitians died as a result of a Jan. 12 quake that was very much weaker than the one in Chile...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: When the Earth Moves | 3/15/2010 | See Source »

...next and surging every year thereafter. There is bipartisan agreement that the deficits and overall debt are unsustainable. Douglas Holtz-Eakin, a former director of the Congressional Budget Office, has urged policymakers not just to educate the public about the dangers ahead but also "to scare them to death" about the dire prospects if the debt is allowed to continue to grow. (See a report card on the stimulus programs...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Is There Too Much Worry About the Debt? | 3/15/2010 | See Source »

...That kind of buyer's remorse has Florida conservatives crowing. "The entire Crist operation appears to be in a death spiral," says GOP consultant Brett Doster, an ally of Crist's conservative predecessor, Jeb Bush, whose fans say Crist's centrist agenda has betrayed Bush's legacy. "It's hard to imagine at this point what he could possibly do to reverse this." And it will be even harder if Bush decides, as many think he'll do after the current Florida legislative session ends in May, to endorse Rubio. "Jeb," Doster adds, "is the 800-lb. gorilla...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: In Florida, Can Crist Turn the Tide Against Rubio? | 3/15/2010 | See Source »

...three years after Kapuscinski's death at the age of 74, fresh questions have emerged about whether the journalist's works were based more in fiction than in fact, causing a firestorm in Poland, where Kapuscinski is considered a national hero. In a new 600-page biography titled Kapuscinski Non-Fiction, the Polish journalist Artur Domoslawski says Kapuscinski repeatedly crossed the boundary between reporting and fiction writing during his career, claiming to have witnessed events where he hadn't actually been present and inventing images to heighten the dramatic effect of his stories. (See the top 10 fiction books...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Did a Polish Journalist Mix Fact with Fantasy? | 3/15/2010 | See Source »

...likened Domoslawski's work to patricide. "He wanted to precipitate the removal from the pedestal of the one who promoted him, valued him, encouraged him and recommended him," she said in an interview with the newspaper Polska the Times. "Such things should be published several dozen years after the death of the subject, not when his wife and daughter are still around." (See pictures of the Polish Woodstock...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Did a Polish Journalist Mix Fact with Fantasy? | 3/15/2010 | See Source »

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