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...shocked, absolutely shocked," says Ingalls, who owns a company that designs and sells novelty jewelry. "I was expecting to spend $1,000 or more. And he did a great job on top of it all. I still cannot believe it." (See the 10 big recession surprises...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Tables Turned: Contractors Now at Homeowners' Mercy | 7/28/2009 | See Source »

While traditional psychotherapists focus their treatments on the patient's interior - whether through pharmaceuticals like Prozac, mindfulness practices like meditation, or old-fashioned couch-bound therapy by the hour - practitioners of the burgeoning field of eco-therapy believe that patient care must include time spent in the great outdoors. "It's psychotherapy - as if nature really mattered," says Linda Buzzell-Saltzman, a psychologist and the founder of the International Association for Ecotherapy, which currently lists slightly more than 100 official members...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: 'Eco-Therapy' for Environmental Depression | 7/28/2009 | See Source »

Husky and hairy, with the flaming orange coloring of a bad dye job, the orangutan doesn't look like the most agile of primates. But in fact these great apes, native to the jungles of Malaysia and Indonesia, climb and swing nimbly through the canopy more than 100 feet in the air, their fleet-footed acrobatics allowing them to make their home in the treetops and access remote food sources, like the fruit at the very ends of branches. (Read "Kalimantan's Camp Orangutan...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Like Tarzan, Orangutans Glide Through Trees | 7/28/2009 | See Source »

...seen in his six months in office. The monthlong break will give critics ample time to hone their messages of "too much, too soon" and stir up grass-roots opposition, and members of Congress will go home to hear what constituents have to say. As President Lyndon Johnson, the great master of the Senate, warned his staff after his 1964 landslide, "every day while I'm in office, I'm gonna lose votes." Some 56% of Americans believe that Obama can implement a national health plan in the next four years, but that's down from 63% six months...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Five Biggest Hurdles to Health-Care Reform | 7/27/2009 | See Source »

Before long, however, population growth was taking a toll on the nation's food supply. In 1955 officials launched a campaign to promote birth control, only to have their efforts reversed in 1958 by the Great Leap Forward - Mao's disastrous attempt to rapidly convert China into a modern industrialized state. "A larger population means greater manpower," reasoned Hu Yaobang, secretary of the Communist Youth League, at a national conference of youth work representatives that April. "The force of 600 million liberated people is tens of thousands of times stronger than a nuclear explosion...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: China's One-Child Policy | 7/27/2009 | See Source »

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