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...initiative has spurred a heated debate over the Winthrop list. Some argue that one dispenser will create an assembly line effect and thereby infect every napkin with 5 different pairs of hands. Yet others question that any napkins will be saved at all—what if people stockpile and then commence their meal...

Author: By Esther I. Yi | Title: Wipe That Off Your Face | 10/1/2009 | See Source »

...sparkling swimming pool and sat just beyond the city limits. Other residents noticed nothing about him except for his shuttle van. "We have people of all walks here," says Mike Callender, a warehouse manager who lives in Building B. "And everyone gets along." The perfect cover, in effect, was no cover at all. "We've known for a long time that al-Qaeda's ideal recruit is someone who is legally in the U.S., has no criminal record," says Rosenau, "someone completely invisible to authorities...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: An Enemy Within: The Making of Najibullah Zazi | 10/1/2009 | See Source »

Most useless hero: Emma. Seeing sound as colors is kind of a cool effect, but we wish she could have done something interesting with it this week...

Author: By H. Zane B. Wruble | Title: Recap: "Ink" | 9/30/2009 | See Source »

...hotel opening in 2000 and the Leela Palace, which opened in April, both just a few feet from the lake, the doors have opened for other shoreline hotel and residential development. "The big guys essentially bought their way past standing lakeshore-encroachment laws," says Razdan. "That created a domino effect. Smaller entrepreneurs with money muscle and political connections asked...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Saving India's Endangered Lakes | 9/30/2009 | See Source »

...other impurities from the marble. Some 100 factories in the area leave large tracts of the white stuff, which not only contaminate the air, the ground and eventually the waters, but also cause the huge areas of white to reflect the sunlight, creating their own micro-climatic-warming effect in the valleys of the Aravalli Range that form the basin of Udaipur...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Saving India's Endangered Lakes | 9/30/2009 | See Source »

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