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Dates: during 2000-2009
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Read "AIG's Distress: Are There Enough Fingers for This Dike...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Plan to Buy Toxic Bank Assets Delayed Again | 3/19/2009 | See Source »

Read "AIG's Distress: Are There Enough Fingers for This Dike...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Case for Letting AIG Fail | 3/16/2009 | See Source »

Read "AIG's Distress: Are There Enough Fingers for This Dike...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Obama's Challenge: Containing the AIG Bonus Outrage | 3/16/2009 | See Source »

...economical way to capture and sequester carbon emissions from coal, and many experts doubt there ever will be. But now the idea of clean coal might be truly dead, buried beneath the 1.1 billion gallons of water mixed with toxic coal ash that on Dec. 22 burst through a dike next to the Kingston coal plant in the Tennessee Valley and blanketed several hundred acres of land, destroying nearby houses. The accident - which released 100 times more waste than the Exxon Valdez disaster - has polluted the waterways of Harriman, Tenn., with potentially dangerous levels of toxic metals like arsenic...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Exposing the Myth of Clean Coal Power | 1/10/2009 | See Source »

...better. Whether Encore signals a new beginning for Las Vegas, the way Wynn's Mirage did in 1989, is not a bet to take lightly. "We're still in a fairly early phase in the downturn," says Schwer. "I don't see Steve Wynn sticking his finger in the dike and holding it back...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Good Times Stop Rolling: Vegas Meets the Recession | 12/29/2008 | See Source »

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