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...Barroso said the cost is low compared to the high price of inaction. "The longer we delay, the higher the costs of adaptation and mitigation," he said, adding that the overall price tag of the plan, at around 0.5% of E.U. gross domestic product, represented value for money over the long term. "This amounts to about three euros a week for everyone. A real commitment, but not a bad deal...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: EU Aims to Choke Carbon Emissions | 1/23/2008 | See Source »

Book launches for works of history are typically sedate, often even boring affairs, but the shouts of "Lie!" and "Slander!" from the agitated crowd suggest that the latest offering from Jan Tomasz Gross is garnering attention in circles way beyond those of academic historians. Gross has come to Warsaw's Entrepreneurship and Management Academy to promote his new book, Fear: Anti-Semitism in Poland after Auschwitz, and the visible police presence and the plethora of TV cameras in the jam-packed hall make clear that the topic has aroused strong emotions...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Confronting Poland's Anti-Semitic Demons | 1/23/2008 | See Source »

...among the Big Five. The movie, which has been in wide release only since Christmas day, has already earned $87 million. None of the others has yet topped $50 million at the domestic wickets (though the Brit Atonement is in Juno's league if you count the international gross...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Downsizing of Oscar | 1/22/2008 | See Source »

...time--but again, mostly for men. Over nearly two decades, the study found, married men widened the already significant difference in cancer-death incidence between themselves and unmarried men by 25%; married women gained absolutely zero ground over their unmarried peers. Why this subtle somatic sexism? "This is a gross generalization, but women are really the mental- and physical-health housekeepers for a marriage," says psychologist Janice Kiecolt-Glaser of the Ohio State University College of Medicine. "They are often the ones who prod men to go to a doctor or to eat more healthily...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Marry Me | 1/17/2008 | See Source »

...automobile industry in a tailspin, Michigan was as friendly an environment as he was likely to find. It is one of only two states in the country that lost population last year, as job seekers fled elsewhere, and the only one in the country with a shrinking gross domestic product. Macomb County, whose swing voters were the original "Reagan Democrats," once led the state in housing starts; it now sets the pace for foreclosures in Michigan...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Can the Economy Save Mitt Romney? | 1/17/2008 | See Source »

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