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...these new venues? Very doubtful. AIG, the embattled insurance giant, has sponsored the U.S. Davis Cup team since 1999, an agreement that ends this year: if the company hadn't floundered, odds are it would have renewed the deal. Now the United States Tennis Association has to fish for a new sponsor in a very soft market. The sports-facility boom could also take a hit: the economy will likely delay ground-breaking for the new Florida Marlins stadium in Miami...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Can Sports Avoid This Recession? | 10/23/2008 | See Source »

...There was no fraud involved. This person is a dead fish.' BETH NUDELMAN, a Chicago resident, after her deceased goldfish Princess received voter-registration forms in the mail; the family once jokingly filled in the pet's name when it got a second phone line...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Verbatim | 10/23/2008 | See Source »

...allow for the use of the Amazon’s bounty without destruction. This summer the government began the profitable and heroic production of condoms from rubber tree plants. Hydroelectric dams are also being built and activities which do not produce smoke are being subsidized, like bee-keeping, fish-farming, and forest management...

Author: By Raúl A. Carrillo | Title: Captain Planet Economics | 10/23/2008 | See Source »

...take Arnold Schwarzenegger seriously as a hero of the environment, when you show him surrounded by a collection of dead, stuffed animals? Perhaps they all died from carbon emissions, which is why he has become so passionate about it. Lynn Moss, FISH HOEK, SOUTH AFRICA...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Depression Hurts | 10/21/2008 | See Source »

...What angers villagers is that the pollution is there for anyone to see. Le Thi Nung doesn't need a scientist in a lab coat to tell her that the river is full of poison. Her village in Dong Nai's district of Long Thanh once depended upon fishing and small farms. "After Vedan opened, the pollution killed all the fish so I had nothing to feed my seven children," she complains, adding that the factory brought few of the promised benefits, only cancers and stomach ailments. With no other options, Nung's 19-year-old daughter married a Taiwanese...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Vietnam Cracks Down on Polluters | 10/17/2008 | See Source »

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