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Humans won't be the only animals to benefit. Clearing land for palm-oil plantations is Indonesia's leading cause of deforestation, says a 2007 U.N. report, with Sumatra, Kalimantan and Papua the three worst-affected provinces. Thanks largely to the global appetite for palm oil, which is found in...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Protecting Jungles: One Way to Combat Global Warming | 11/30/2009 | See Source »

But perhaps the biggest reason for optimism is Xi'an residents like Lu Bo. The 32-year-old says the salary he earns as a salesman in the air-freight department at China Eastern Airlines was reduced by a third last year when his company was hit hard by the...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Can China's Backwaters Save the Global Economy? | 11/30/2009 | See Source »

The book engages with moral arguments about protection and survival: What if everything we believed in vanished, leaving love to stand naked on its own--would that be enough? McCarthy's writing has always been a manly affair, so it made sense that he reduced his world to father and...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Road on Film: Beautiful, Bleak | 11/30/2009 | See Source »

We meet, in due course, the deceived husband as well: "A brilliant neurologist, a renowned lecturer [and] a gentleman of independent means, Dr. Philip Wild had everything save an attractive exterior." Philip is older, eccentric and miserly, and he's less interested in Flora than in a bizarre experiment he...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Piecing Together Nabokov's Last Novel | 11/30/2009 | See Source »

In retrospect, Disneyland wasn't an ideal family-vacation spot for Mark Waddell, a Navy SEAL commander whose valor in combat hid the fact that he was suffering from severe mental trauma. The noise of the careening rides, the shrieking kids - everything roused Waddell to a state of hypervigilance typical...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: How One Army Town Copes with Posttraumatic Stress | 11/30/2009 | See Source »

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