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Dates: during 2010-2019
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Insisting on the CFPA will doom the cause of reform. The argument here is that reasonable people can disagree on the importance of a new consumer agency, but it's not a realistic goal, because Republicans have declared it a deal breaker. Even before the Massachusetts election, Democratic Senate leaders had decided not to reprise the horse-trading it took to get them 60 votes for health care reform. They want a bipartisan bill, and there's no way that will happen with the CFPA. Why not ditch...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Case for a Consumer Financial Protection Agency | 2/17/2010 | See Source »

...good fortune of being left alone. With a corporation stripping a forest here and a megacity sprouting there, the pressures of the globalized world are weighing all the more heavily on some of humanity's oldest communities. But, says Harrison of the Living Tongues Institute, all's not doom and gloom for the planet's endangered languages. After decades of neglect, governments and international organizations like UNESCO have started committing significant funds to tribal research and education projects. This is happening in tandem with recent grass-roots efforts to defend native tongues. "There are signs of a growing global movement...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Off the Coast of India, Another Language Dies | 2/17/2010 | See Source »

...tender vocals are here successfully highlighted. Liberated by the more varied melody, Smith weaves a narrative that is less mournful and more hopeful than those of the other tracks. For just over two minutes the clouds part, and Midlake captures a poignant sense of winter that is not all doom and gloom...

Author: By Sally K. Scopa, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Midlake | 2/9/2010 | See Source »

...first it was fun, but then it got old very quick. After about the first season, it started to slide for me. Then Sharon got colon cancer. Then the kids ended up on drugs and alcohol. I was on drugs and alcohol. It was like a ship of doom...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: 10 Questions for Ozzy Osbourne | 2/8/2010 | See Source »

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