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That wave is already growing throughout the U.S., where state and local governments have taken aggressive steps on global warming in the absence of federal guidance. But the EPA's decision leaves little doubt that the Bush Administration, with a year left in office, has no interest in meeting environmentalists halfway - or perhaps, at all. "This is the Administration showing its true colors," says Robinson. "They're attempting to undercut progress even as they get ready to walk out the White House doors." Change is on its way, but 2008 may be a lost year for global warming...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: California's Clean-Air Slapdown | 12/20/2007 | See Source »

...asserted that "if human embryonic-cell research does not make you a little bit uncomfortable, you have not thought about it enough." Would I be more certain about the lack of moral questions related to this research if I suffered from Parkinson's disease, as Kinsley does? I doubt it. My mother died from the disease, and my brother battles it every day. And though I hope that stem-cell research will yield untold benefits, my excitement is muted - perhaps because I was a research chemist for more than 40 years. Only when we see giant corporations risk their...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Inbox | 12/19/2007 | See Source »

...story. "He described to us, in really creepy detail in retrospect, how it supposedly happened," Gergis recalled. "He said, 'Their breath was so distinctive; if I could only smell everybody's breath, I would be able to pick them out.'" George added that they had no reason to doubt Nava's story. Nava, he said, was a residential college adviser, Religious Life Council member and a good student who seemed to be "a person of good character. I had no reason to think otherwise...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Tale of an Ivy-League Hoaxer | 12/18/2007 | See Source »

...center of the firestorm, denies that he was ever offered any bribe money or that he was pressured by his superiors or any other interested parties. After carefully reviewing the case, Rodriguez said he concluded that Volz's physical involvement in the murder was not proved beyond a reasonable doubt...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Gringo Justice in Nicaragua | 12/18/2007 | See Source »

...that he will probably lose his job over his decision, hedged his decision by saying it is not his job to determine Volz's ultimate guilt or innocence, but rather to study the case on a technical and legal basis to determine whether the prosecutor proved without a reasonable doubt that he had "physically participated in the murder...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Gringo Justice in Nicaragua | 12/18/2007 | See Source »

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