Word: dubiousness
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...Bowl some luster? A 16-game season in a sport as hard-hitting as the NFL is already a test of endurance; there will always be players who opt out of the Pro Bowl because they're legitimately too beat up to play. Fining players who invent dubious injuries to duck out would be a start, although making a consequential dent in a superstar athlete's salary might be tough. At minimum, moving the game back to the Sunday following the Super Bowl seems like a no-brainer. Teams get to championships in part by having some of the game...
...seat in Massachusetts), a new scandal broke over climate science. Faced with criticism of a widely quoted piece of analysis from its 2007 climate assessment that warned that Himalayan glaciers could melt by 2035, the U.N. Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) was forced to admit to relying on dubious scientific sources, apologized and retracted its earlier estimate. That estimate of the rate of Himalayan glacier loss because of warming, which appeared in the same assessment that earned the global body a share of the Nobel Peace Prize, was "poorly substantiated," the IPCC said. (See TIME's photo-essay "Himalayan...
...years. What was different over the past few years was how widespread this Dickensian business model had become, largely fueled by Wall Street money seeking high rates of return. Another difference was how much the general investing public - through university endowments and pension funds - became party to such morally dubious schemes. Consider it another footnote to the Gilded Age we just passed through. (See pictures of Americans in their homes...
...only January and the Hollywood swells are assembling in tuxedos and evening dresses, you know it must be an award show of dubious provenance but free television exposure. George Clooney, Meryl Streep, Sandra Bullock, king-of-the-movie-world James Cameron: if you offer them the chance to win a prize on TV, they will come. Thus on Friday the Broadcast Film Critics Association presented its star-clogged Critics Choice Awards, hosted by Broadway and prime-time cutie Kristin Chenoweth. And Sunday night found the Hollywood Foreign Press Association rounding up all the usual suspects, plus famous folks...
...former British official appeared just an hour after an inquiry in the Netherlands criticized Dutch Prime Minister Jan Peter Balkenende for backing the Iraq invasion on the basis of dubious legal reasoning. The commission set up by the Dutch government to probe the run-up to the war found that Balkenende's then caretaker administration blithely accepted foreign assurances about Iraq's WMDs, even though Dutch intelligence agencies were "more reserved" in their assessments. (See pictures of Tony Blair's decade in power...