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...want to acknowledge that something harmful was going on. A presentation on the benefits of testosterone? Not worse than cigarettes? Helling, though, didn't give up. Each year he would make the same speech at the players association board meeting ... 1998, 1999, 2000, 2001 ... and each year nothing would happen, except that more and more bodies grew unnaturally bigger and the game became twisted into a perversion, its nuances and subtleties blasted away by the naked obsession with power. Baseball was reduced to the lowest common denominator: to whack the ball farther or to heave it faster. Baseball's inability...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Man Who Warned Baseball About Steroids | 2/23/2009 | See Source »

...them," Laband says. "Churches have had to come to grips with that; they haven't drawn a line in the sand and said 'You have to go to church.' So the trend is clear that states will do away with some of these alcohol prohibitions. It will happen. It's just a matter of when...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Will the Recession Doom the Last Sunday Blue Laws? | 2/22/2009 | See Source »

...their balance sheets and have elected to use the slow economy to develop new products and services to take share away from financially weaker competitors. A few of the companies on this list had modest job cuts last year. None of them were significant and are highly unlikely to happen again. ( See pictures of TIME's Wall Street covers...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Ten American Companies That Won't Cut Jobs | 2/20/2009 | See Source »

...thought. Further research indicates that my acquaintance was far from alone; according to a 2008 Gallup poll, about 11 percent of Americans still think that global warming “will never happen.” (Within the scientific community, this statistic is only three percent.) Perhaps most disturbingly, the study reports that 13 percent of Americans believe that no further climate control measures are necessary—in other words, that we as a society should take no action to further reduce carbon emissions or attempt to combat global warming...

Author: By Sabrina G. Lee | Title: Global Warning | 2/20/2009 | See Source »

...occupying the other side of my Starbucks counter just started softly singing “I’ve Got You Under My Skin.” This would never happen at Lamont...

Author: By Alexandra A. Petri | Title: Save Saturday! | 2/20/2009 | See Source »

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