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...level, nervous investors sold off the pawnshop stocks. When the most restrictive proposal - a 36% cap proposed by Senator Richard Durbin, a Democrat from Illinois - failed to win support, the shares rebounded. However, the Senator has reintroduced the bill in the current session of Congress, and it could ultimately find its way into financial-industry reform. More worrisome to investors is the potential power of a Consumer Financial Protection Agency, part of the financial-reform bill recently passed by the House and under consideration in the Senate. Under the current versions of the bill, the agency would not have...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Pawnshops Flourish in Hard Times, Drawing Scrutiny | 1/14/2010 | See Source »

...lesbian communities, which fully charter ships for themselves on themed cruises, the cougars have less leverage because they're just one group among many passengers onboard. Says Carolyn Spencer Brown, editor in chief of the website Cruise Critic: "In a contained environment like a cruise ship, if other passengers find anything potentially offensive about your group's theme, it can be a problem. That's why it's better to take the whole ship...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Why Cougar Cruises Proved Too Hot for Carnival | 1/14/2010 | See Source »

...decide to write this book? Love: We were really frustrated with all these health rules and all these people who were getting stressed out trying to keep them. So we decided we would research them and find out the truth. We were surprised to find that most of them were based on very little - if any - data...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Why Women Can Scrap Those Health Rules | 1/14/2010 | See Source »

...which warming could begin to melt the Arctic permafrost and unleash masses of buried methane - which would then further warm the atmosphere, releasing more methane and continuing in a dangerous feedback cycle. But if we're going to prevent that from happening, we're going to have to find a way other than reducing methane emissions from wetlands. Global food requirements mean that we can't cut back seriously on rice paddy cultivation, and wetlands are far too important to the environment as groundwater filters and buffers against coastal floods. "I just don't see any way to control methane...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: How Wetlands Worsen Climate Change | 1/14/2010 | See Source »

...West are in conflict and argues that all Muslims should join the holy war. In a how-to guide titled "44 Ways to Support Jihad," he says, "Jihad today is obligatory on every capable Muslim. So as a Muslim who wants to please Allah it is your duty to find ways to practice it and support...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: How Dangerous Is the Cleric Anwar al-Awlaki? | 1/13/2010 | See Source »

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