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...Iran shows no signs of giving in to global calls to cease its nuclear-research activities, Western nations have been mapping out a careful, incremental plan to stop Tehran. The West's plan is informally known to diplomats as the frog strategy--with no disrespect to the French, who are among its key tacticians. The name refers to the old saw that if you want to boil a frog, you put the unsuspecting amphibian in a pot of cold water. "This time it will be an Iranian frog," says a European diplomat. "The strategy is to heat slowly but steadily...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Slow Iran Squeeze | 1/22/2006 | See Source »

...frog strategy may infuriate U.S. hard-liners who argue that it does little to hinder Iran's nuclear work right now. But proponents say that only the go-slow approach can win support from Russia and China. "The diplomacy with the Russians and the Chinese is very intense," says a key official. Rice, scheduled to travel to London next week for a conference on Afghanistan, may stop first in Moscow for talks with Russian officials. She needs Moscow's backing to win Beijing's--and ultimately to gain Iran's compliance. As for a step four to the strategy, there...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Slow Iran Squeeze | 1/22/2006 | See Source »

...international team of scientists think they've solved the mystery. Comparing changes in annual temperatures with the number of frog species spotted, they've documented for the first time a direct correlation between global warming and the extinction of about two-thirds of the 110 known species of harlequin frog...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Environment: Why Are These Frogs Croaking? | 1/15/2006 | See Source »

...most persuasive piece of evidence in the new study, led by J. Alan Pounds of the Monteverde Cloud Forest Preserve in Costa Rica and published in Nature, is a graph that shows both annual changes in average temperature and the number of frog extinctions per year on the same grid: the jagged lines track each other with eerie precision. Species die-offs follow warm years 80% of the time. With tropical air temperatures from 1975 to 2000 rising three times as fast as the 20th century average, things should only get worse...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Environment: Why Are These Frogs Croaking? | 1/15/2006 | See Source »

...grizzly bear/police chief. But “Hoodwinked” isn’t a laugh-free affair: when the characters aren’t talking, the writers manage to get off a few smart references and clever spoofs. The detective in charge of the Hood case is a frog who dresses and acts like William Powell’s Nick of the classic “Thin Man” films, and The Wolf (Patrick Warburton), actually a misunderstood investigative reporter, is a carbon copy of Chevy Chase in “Fletch,” complete with hoodie...

Author: By Hayes H. Davenport, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Hoodwinked | 1/12/2006 | See Source »

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