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...again the government has announced a package of measures aimed at halting it. If you think you've heard this story before, you're not wrong. It's depressingly familiar. "This is only a surprise if you believe in Father Christmas," said Roberto Smeraldi, director of Friends of the Earth's Brazil office...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Amazon Gets Less and Less Green | 1/25/2008 | See Source »

...narrator says, "For some reason, for some time in the beginning, there were hot lumps. Cold and lonely, they whirled noiselessly through the black holes of space. These insignificant lumps came together to form our first union - our sun, the heating system. And about this glowing gasbag rotated the earth, a cat's-eye among aggies, blinking in astonishment across the face of time." Please give credit where it's due! Phil Proctor, Beverly Hills, California

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Inbox | 1/24/2008 | See Source »

...barely wait to crown Obama the winner long before the polls closed. Obama is smart, attractive, likable and a fabulous orator, but we need much more than beautiful speeches. Clinton's credentials are excellent. By happenstance, she would be the first woman President of the most powerful nation on earth. Talk about change. Bambi Lin Litchman TACOMA, WASH...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Inbox | 1/24/2008 | See Source »

...White House deserves the international condemnation. The Bush Administration has stymied action on global warming at home and abroad, questioning and occasionally suppressing compelling scientific evidence that the earth is heating up and man-made pollution is a major reason why. In a damning speech delivered near the end of the Bali summit, former U.S. Vice President and climate-change prophet Al Gore told the rest of the world to carry on the fight against global warming without the U.S. "Save a large blank space in your documents," he said. "Move ahead anyway, on the hope that blank will...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Wind Shift | 1/23/2008 | See Source »

...reveal what kind of apocalypse the beast in Cloverfield brings, whether it leaves behind a charred, crispy earth or a moist green one or whether it just?no fair!?succumbs to old-fashioned human military might. But there's a part of each of us that is rooting for the monster and that would be glad to see us go. Because we know there's a little beast...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Apocalypse New | 1/17/2008 | See Source »

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