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...Lauding high-profile "Heroes of the Environment" is one thing. But when the worst of the world's pollution is caused by industrial activity, why not identify the movers and shakers who are pressuring business to lift its game? The world guru on environmental accounting, Prof. Rob Gray, of the University of St Andrews, Scotland, would be a good start. David Macklin, Adelaide...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Inbox | 11/8/2007 | See Source »

...week, with contradictions constantly tugging at the soul of the nation. CEOs of some of the world's biggest companies gathered in New Delhi for the Global Forum of FORTUNE magazine, TIME's sister publication. U.S. Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson swung through to talk at the Forum with globalization guru Thomas Friedman and to meet with Prime Minister Manmohan Singh to lobby for the U.S.-India nuclear deal, which is at risk of rejection in the Indian Parliament. German Chancellor Angela Merkel began a four-day trip designed to boost trade and to talk to her counterpart about global warming...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: For Richer or for Poorer | 11/1/2007 | See Source »

...famous experimental psychologist. His books make waves in academia and on The New York Times Bestseller List. An October 28, 2007 New York Times article cited his belief that there are over 1,200 words for “vagina.” FM catches up with the language-guru psychology professor Steven Pinker.1. Fifteen Minutes: Your ideas are intuitive but not obvious. How do you come up with them? Do they dawn on you while you’re making breakfast or are you a slave to your desk until you?...

Author: By Ana P. Gantman, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: 15 Questions With Steven Pinker | 10/31/2007 | See Source »

...From his very first book - 1957's The Mystic Masseur, about a deceitful guru - a dislike of fraudulence and "mimic men" has run through Naipaul's corpus, as it apparently does through his latest book, A Writer's People: Ways of Looking and Feeling. Naipaul's intention with this slim volume of essays is the continued unmasking of artifice and fabrication - not in a character or a society, but this time in writing. "There is a specificity to writing," Naipaul believes. "Certain settings, certain cultures, have to be written about in a certain way ... You cannot write about Nigerian tribal...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Pique Performance | 10/25/2007 | See Source »

...practice.” Not all of the participants share Levin-Gesundheit’s views. Dripping in sweat, Crimson Sports Chair Jonathan J. Lehman ’09 avows that “Harvard should really consider Gaga its 42nd varsity sport.” Fellow Gaga-guru Jaime S.M. Guarnaccia ’08 agrees, adding that “they should make a Gaga movie, like ‘Dodgeball.’” So was this a one-time event, or can Harvard students count on a weekly Gaga game to get us through...

Author: By Frances Jin, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: The Game of the Tribe | 10/24/2007 | See Source »

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