Word: fall
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...churns out with alarming regularity - with a sizable budget; a gorgeous location; funny dudes; pretty, bikini-ready women; and plenty of sex jokes. Not great but not terrible. But this movie, which plays out like the fulfillment of the Swingers dudes' worst nightmares, is just sad. (See TIME's fall entertainment preview...
...money is coming from the Advanced Technology Vehicles Manufacturing Loan Program, which was created two years ago as part of the bipartisan Energy Independence and Security Act of 2007. It was funded by Congress last fall to accelerate the production of fuel-efficient vehicles for mainstream Americans and reduce the nation's dependence on imported oil. (See the history of the electric...
...helping the welfare of less advantaged countries who do not have the infrastructure to cope with health outbreaks themselves. Fortunately, these two goals are not incompatible in the case of treating H1N1, which has begun to lay low several Harvard undergraduates and threatens to experience a massive resurgence this fall...
...While governors are primarily focused on how their already hurting state budgets could be strained by the expansion of the Medicaid program that is proposed in all the health bills, there are other key responsibilities that could fall to them under the Baucus bill. Most important, the all-important exchanges - Web-accessible marketplaces in which individuals and small groups could compare and shop for private insurance - would be established state by state. By contrast, the House bill would create a national exchange. Instead of a national public insurance plan - the controversial "public option" that is included in both the Senate...
...main Kabul-Kandahar highway was once a showpiece for how Western aid would modernize Afghanistan after the fall of the Taliban. Repaved in 2003, the 300-mile highway is now pocked with craters from roadside bombs. Travelers face three or four Taliban checkpoints along the way. A Western businessman says his trucking firm pays a local commander from $5,000 to $6,000 for the safe passage of each fuel tanker along the highway, a sum which he suspects the Taliban get a share of. He also claims that in order to ship fuel from Kandahar to a Dutch base...