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...amount of support that candidates attract against how much voters say they know about them. Candidates, of course, hope that the more voters see of them, the more they like them. But for some, the opposite can be the case. The TIME Index tracks familiarity against likability, the gold standard for successful candidates. As the campaign progresses, the TIME Index will show who's soaring, who's sinking and who's standing still--and soon you will be able to follow the TIME Index online...
DEAN M. BRAYTON Gold Canyon, Ariz...
...city seems like the perfect birthplace for the global-warming pact that was named for it. At the end of my trip last November, I toured the grounds of Nanzenji, a Buddhist complex that sprawls through the wooded slopes to the east of the city, and watched red and gold leaves fall upon a rock garden, where they were swept up by monks. Kyoto's temples show how humans can live in nature and actually add to it, not just take from...
DIED. Donald Osterbrock, 82, courtly astrophysicist and longtime director of the University of California's Lick Observatory who mapped out the shapes of stars and galaxies; in Santa Cruz, Calif. A winner of such honors as the British Royal Astronomical Society's Gold Medal--almost never bestowed on an American--he determined that the Milky Way is shaped like a spiral and unearthed the processes that explain how the sun keeps its shape and size...
...Strolling Ostrava's wind-swept streets in his footsteps, I could not resist the guessing game. At Jindricha, one of his watering holes, it could be anyone. "It's definitely none of the patrons," insists Iveta Mickova, a plump, no-nonsense waitress, thick gold hoops dangling from her ear lobes. The regulars, she continues, suspect a guy who keeps scribbling away while sitting alone puffing on his pipe. "See that guy with the bag?" she winks towards a slim, bearded fellow approaching from the street...