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...complicated web of factors and likely causes: The panel determined that two chemicals are probably responsible for GWI, both of which were administered by the U.S. military to its own soldiers: the drug pyridostigmine bromide, given to troops to protect against nerve gas, and pesticides sprayed around barracks, dining halls and uniforms to protect against insects. But the panel did not rule out the myriad other toxic chemicals that soldiers faced on the ground, including "hundreds of burning oil-well fires that turned the Kuwaiti sky black with smoke, dramatic reports of uranium-tipped munitions, sandstorms, secret vaccines, and frequent...
...Pictures TIME photographer Callie Shell defined the American ethos with her poignant photograph of the soles of Obama's shoes [Nov. 17]. Lots of us have many pairs that look just like his, whether because of pounding the pavement looking for a job or simply walking to work because gas is unaffordable. The photograph also defined what Obama stands for: hard work, determination and never giving up. Melissa Clarke, Bear, Delaware...
...show whose luck stalled just a few years back. In 2001, 24 years after it was launched, Top Gear ran out of gas. Its restart the following year owes much to Wilman and Clarkson, who quit the show in 1999 after just over a decade fronting it. Over beers in a London pub, the two sketched the show's current format: out went the string of turgid, outside-broadcast pieces to camera. In came a cavernous studio. Fresh faces were added. A mystery racing driver, permanently hidden beneath overalls and a crash helmet and known only as "the Stig," injected...
...happening, Congress needs to extend a loan to these companies. The automakers should certainly be held responsible for their own poor choices. Their focus on the production of SUVs and trucks instead of more fuel-efficient cars has caused major profit losses, as consumers have turned away from these gas-guzzling vehicles. Union support for these strategies—while politically helpful to their constituents in the short term—has also made it difficult for Congress to impose fuel standards on the industry. Wherever the blame lies, however, making the changeover to producing more fuel-efficient vehicles will...
...least in the last 100 years in terms of what we were able to accomplish, whether it was in terms of stopping spending, the expansion of government-run health insurance, the big win that we had on lifting the ban on offshore drilling and drilling for oil and gas in the intermountain West. We had some great successes, most of which got overshadowed by the economic crisis five weeks before the election...