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...retirement of Formula One's most influential figure. At most races sits a black-and-white bunker-mobile with blacked-out windows. That belongs to Ecclestone, who is not beloved and doesn't try to be - in an interview with the London Times last summer he appeared to give qualified praise to Adolf Hitler, saying that the German leader "could command a lot of people" and was "able to get things done...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Turbulent Times of Formula One | 3/15/2010 | See Source »

...first two goals of the game, in that Cornell caused a turnover behind its blue line and found the back of the net shortly after—but this time it was two skaters closing in on Bellamy. Laura Fortino dished the puck to Chelsea Karpenko for a give-and-go. Karpenko put Bellamy off balance before sending the puck back to Fortino, who scored on an open...

Author: By Christina C. Mcclintock, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: NOTEBOOK: Strengths Become Weaknesses in Loss | 3/14/2010 | See Source »

...That's the idea behind an initiative called Give Your Vote, in which U.K. citizens will voluntarily give up their votes in the parliamentary elections expected to take place May 6 to residents in the developing world. The aim is less to tip the British elections one way or the other than to highlight the limitations of local decision-making in an increasingly interconnected world. "Right now, the people making decisions on things like climate change aren't getting their authority from the guy in Bangladesh whose house is being flooded," says James Sadri, one of the founders of Egality...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Giving Afghans (and More) a Vote in Britain's Election | 3/14/2010 | See Source »

...residents of the U.K., dealing with climate change means accepting a higher price on everything from gasoline to electricity. In crowded, low-lying Bangladesh, it means trying to avoid catastrophic flooding. Atique Chowdhury, Give Your Vote's organizer in Dhaka, is a self-described climate refugee, a former resident of an island near the Bay of Bengal that has been almost completely abandoned because of rising sea levels. "As a major emitter of carbon dioxide, the U.K. must take the responsibility," he says. But developing nations still want a say on how that's done. (See pictures of British soldiers...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Giving Afghans (and More) a Vote in Britain's Election | 3/14/2010 | See Source »

...just happening in Ethiopia either. A new U.N. report on Somalia, first revealed in a report by the The New York Times on March 9, found that Somali contractors skim off as much as half the food aid delivered by the World Food Program and give it to Islamic militants battling the government. That revelation followed on the heels of a sharp debate on aid in Somalia between the U.N. and the U.S., which has announced it will restrict some supplies to the country out of fear it's helping the rebels. "Operating in conflict zones is always a complex...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: When Humanitarian Aid Winds Up in the Wrong Hands | 3/13/2010 | See Source »

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