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Developing countries refuse to do this. They say the hard-fought Kyoto Protocol, whose successor they will be working out at Copenhagen, is unequivocal in laying out differentiated responsibilities, and since the biggest polluters have yet to fulfill their responsibilities, the goalposts cannot be changed. But, they add, India will...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Behind India's Intransigence on Climate-Change Talks | 9/10/2009 | See Source »

Watson, best known for his groundbreaking discovery of the structure of DNA, began his career as a student of zoology, but later switched to the budding field of genetic biology in the early 1950s, after finding ecology “not very intellectually demanding.”

Author: By Natasha S. Whitney, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Scientists Recount Their Shared Pasts | 9/10/2009 | See Source »

"I'm a long-distance singer," Hildegard Behrens liked to say. The German-born soprano, a three-time Grammy winner, was known for accepting some of the most demanding roles in all of opera--parts that many of her peers, who lacked her delivery and drive, preferred to turn down...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Hildegard Behrens | 9/7/2009 | See Source »

While some gang members say they are virtual prisoners of their poor neighborhoods, unable to leave the slums because of police crackdowns and threats from rival gangs, gang culture continues to spread. It has moved well beyond its original bases in the impoverished suburbs of the capital like Apopa and...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Gangs of El Salvador: A Growing Industry | 9/6/2009 | See Source »

Jenkins, Representative Lynn • uninsured mother demanding an affordable public option is laughed at by

Author: /time Magazine | Title: This Preposterous Week! Paul Slansky's News Index | 9/4/2009 | See Source »

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