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...First, because the crisis has metastasized so swiftly, you three guys have failed to adequately explain the systemic risks that lie behind the decisions to spend billions of taxpayer dollars. The three of you, before Congress and in the press, have spent a lot of time asserting that those risks were there, but I don't think you've ever really explained them. AIG, for example, is now getting $150 billion of our money. But it would actually be nice to know, specifically, why that's the case - and yes, please, bore me with details. Lots and lots of them...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Letter to My Friend Tim Geithner | 12/3/2008 | See Source »

...reinforce the urgent need for progress, Gettelfinger brought in Steve Girsky, managing director of Centerbridge Partners, who briefed the joint meeting of the Union's General Motors, Ford and Chrysler councils about the situation. "They asked me to explain how they got into this situation and I did," Girksy told TIME. He declined to offer any details of the sobering briefing but said the situation was "grim...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: UAW agrees to Concessions With Automakers | 12/3/2008 | See Source »

...named it “FLO1.” They also discovered the evolutionary purpose of this gene: to provide “a very simple defense mechanism,” according to Verstrepen. “These yeast form a big clump of cells,” he explained, “and the outer cells protect the inner cells from a toxic agent in the environment.” Verstrepen also found that the toxin ethanol, produced by yeast as a byproduct of cell metabolism, has harmful effects that can be avoided by flocculating. This helps explain...

Author: By Evan T. R. Rosenman, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Beer Yeast Yield Discovery | 12/2/2008 | See Source »

...Eventually we [Solidarity] won, not thanks to a bloody slaughter but to the Round Table negotiations," Kutz argues. "It was a great phenomenon." He also praises Jaruzelski's efforts to explain motives and circumstances behind the martial law. Having stepped down in 1990 after serving as president of Poland during the transition period, the general published books and gave numerous interviews about the clampdown, forcing Poles to rethink their recent history. "He is a man who bears his crown of thorns with unusual dignity and unusual strength," says Kutz...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Redemption for the Polish Leader Who Crushed Solidarity? | 11/29/2008 | See Source »

...very effective." But that method is trickier with an issue like the taxi strikes, which are the result of long-standing grievances - sometimes going back a decade - that have been left largely unaddressed. Unlike other protests, these strikes are not directed specifically against the communist party, which may also explain why the official media has been given freer reins. Still, now that the taxi unrest is a nationwide occurrence, there's no longer much coverage of them in the state press. Indeed, the noticeable drop-off in coverage of is a strong indicator that the cadres who monitor the media...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: China's Taxi Strikes: A Test for the Government | 11/28/2008 | See Source »

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