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An aeronautics professor at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in the 1950s, Dr. Robert Seamans joined the newly formed National Aeronautics and Space Administration in 1960 and played a pivotal role in the race to put a man on the moon. NASA's deputy administrator from 1965 to 1968, Seamans...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones | 7/3/2008 | See Source »

Japan certainly knows how to transform developing economies from energy wasters to energy savers after surviving its own era of environmental destruction. Much like China today, Japan in the 1950s and '60s placed modernizing industry and elevating incomes above improving the environment and public health. The air in Japanese cities...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: China and Japan: The Green Connection | 7/3/2008 | See Source »

In some respects, the USW and Unite are marching to echoes of drumbeats past. Trade unionism has from its earliest days considered itself a global movement, albeit one organized at national levels. Certainly, a number of unions - including the Steelworkers - have formed alliances with foreign counterparts. And there are already...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Big Labor Goes Global | 7/1/2008 | See Source »

Now, however, public finance advocates fear that Democratic candidate Barack Obama's decision to change his position and forgo all public funding may signal an end to Roosevelt's apparatus for good. Obama, who would get about $84 million in public funds for the general election, stands to raise hundreds...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Campaign Financing: A Brief History | 6/30/2008 | See Source »

It took years of activism and advocacy - particularly fervent over the last few years - to make Delhi's Queer Pride possible. In 2004, Voices Against 377, an umbrella group of 12 NGOs working on a range of issues from women's rights to HIV/AIDS, was formed to file a case...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Gay Pride Delhi-Style | 6/29/2008 | See Source »

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