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...course, when it comes to car-charging, plugs are only half the battle; the other half is sockets. Recharging a Tesla through a 110-volt socket - the type found throughout most houses - takes about 12 hours, while the 220-volt socket typically used to operate major household appliances such as washers and dryers takes about half that time...
...prospect of a multibillion-dollar blockbuster that could be even bigger than Viagra and its competitors combined. At a European conference for sexual medicine on Monday, a German pharmaceutical company presented results from a pivotal phase III clinical trial in North America and announced that it had found a drug that works. "We saw an increase in sexually satisfying events, an increase in desire and a decrease in distress. When we look at this against a backdrop of a common and distressing problem that affects 1 of 10 women and for which no treatment exists, well, we are feeling very...
...openly criticizing his superiors for failing to develop airpower fast enough. He was convicted and suspended from active duty with no pay for five years, prompting Mitchell to resign from the Army. The most notorious trial in modern times was that of former Lieutenant William Calley, who was found guilty of participating in the 1968 My Lai massacre in Vietnam. Calley was convicted in 1971 of killing 22 people during the massacre, which cost hundreds of lives. He was sentenced to life in prison but President Nixon ordered his sentence reduced; he was eventually released after three years' house arrest...
...flock to fast-food restaurants and pile into SUVs. But according to Peter Baldwin, a professor of history at UCLA, the reigning stereotypes about both groups are mostly untrue. In The Narcissism of Minor Differences, a new book published this month, Baldwin collected data from dozens of organizations and found that the U.S. and Europe are actually more alike than they are different. Baldwin talked to TIME about transatlantic differences in religion, crime and health care - and why the distinctions matter. (See pictures of Obama's travels in Europe...
...recent BBC global poll found widespread dissatisfaction with free-market capitalism, with only 11% of those questioned across 27 countries saying that it is working well. Perhaps not surprisingly, France led the world with 43% who say capitalism is "fatally flawed." Le Monde, meanwhile, reported on Saturday that the economic crisis has revived support for decroissance, a leftist, ecologically driven philosophy that questions the belief in economic growth as a public good...