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Thank you, TIME, for your efforts to save our planet! Your cover story on global warming should send a message to policymakers around the world that those of us who have called on our leaders to take action to save Planet Earth have not been crying wolf. Climate change is creating catastrophic and nasty conditions. As I write, my town is installing solar-power panels on our town-hall building. Every government on the planet must start thinking globally and acting locally...
...Earth at the Tipping Point...
...McEnroe matches on TV, the Jean Michel Jarre LPs and screenings of Chariots of Fire. Teenagers canoodle to Three Times a Lady and weep over Kramer vs. Kramer. Yet those familiar details are lit up with a sense of magic that makes Middle England seem more wondrous than Middle-earth. "Birdsong's the thoughts of a wood. Beautiful, it was, but boys aren't allowed to say 'beautiful' 'cause it's the gayest word going...
...doesn't always go where they want it to. In March Chevrolet organized an online make-your-own-commercial campaign for its Tahoe SUV. Green-minded humorists hijacked the campaign, creating widely circulated Tahoe ads with slogans like, "Nature? It'll grow back. Drive a car that costs the earth." Last year, Lee Ford and Dan Brooks, a London-based creative ad development team, came up with an "edgy" Volkswagen spot for a demo reel: a terrorist tries to detonate a car bomb outside a crowded café. But the car, a VW Polo, is too sturdy--it contains the blast...
That doesn't mean you should dismiss Wall Street research out of hand. Much of what analysts produce is helpful, especially if what you seek is broad background on an industry. Occasionally, analyst conclusions are earth moving. Recent testimony in the trial of former Enron top dogs Kenneth Lay and Jeffrey Skilling revealed it was an analyst who first questioned the company's finances, prompting Skilling to fret aloud, "They...