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What happens when the President-elect is vacationing in your state and suddenly a major electrical outage occurs? Apart from the embarrassment, there's the immediate issue of security. On Friday night in Honolulu, Mother Nature took all of Barack Obama's power as the future First Family was one...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Protecting Obama When the Lights Go Out | 12/28/2008 | See Source »

Though Ford is not receiving any of the $13.4 billion TARP funds, President and CEO Alan Mulally also expressed gratitude. Mulally also reiterated Ford's intent to stick to the plan it recently submitted to Congress, calling for the company to return to pre-tax profitability by 2011. That plan...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Reaction in Detroit: A Sigh of Relief | 12/19/2008 | See Source »

The Gist: Chances are you underestimate your capacity for cruelty. Stanley Milgram's famous obedience experiments in the 1960s and '70s demonstrated that we're conditioned to inflict pain on complete strangers when impelled to do so by an authority figure. Milgram's experiments - linchpins of any freshman psych class...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Why We're OK With Hurting Strangers | 12/19/2008 | See Source »

The Lowdown: Burger's replication of Milgram's famous demonstration was watered down somewhat; a review of his findings by University of California-Davis professor Alan Elms terms the study "Obedience Lite." The electric charges were purposefully subtler and the conditions less stressful. But the takeaway is no less disturbing...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Why We're OK With Hurting Strangers | 12/19/2008 | See Source »

It didn't help that on the same day the Poznan talks concluded, the European Union - long the world's carbon-cutting leader - took a step backward. Europe had previously pledged to reduce its carbon emissions 20% by 2020 - the so-called 20-20-20 plan - and in Brussels on...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: All Talk, Little Action, at UN Climate-Change Summit | 12/13/2008 | See Source »

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