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...least that's the idea. And even if you don't buy it, you can't deny that it's more palatable than another warning that the market is about to crash...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Crash Master | 9/4/2008 | See Source »

...past seven years, Wright has been working on one of the most ambitious video games ever conceived. The basic idea is to blow out The Sims to the horizon in all directions: this time you create and control an entire species. Wright's first title for the project was Sim Everything. Later he settled on Spore. It will be released on Sept...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Spore: The Sims Plays God | 9/4/2008 | See Source »

...this idea? I heard about it from a student who did this in Canada. It wasn't the same exact thing, but it was similar--a mass guerrilla campaign to raise money for college. I tweaked it and decided to give people a reward for helping...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Getting Strangers to Pay My Tuition | 9/4/2008 | See Source »

...city's gut; and a "funnel" at the mouth of the Industrial Canal, another little-used Corps channel. The Corps has said $15 billion will be required to meet a 100-year safety standard; so far it has spent only about $2 billion. "That should give you an idea of how much work there still is to do," says Garret Graves, who oversees coastal protection and restoration for Governor Bobby Jindal. And even 100-year protection may be insufficient for a low-lying city in a bowl, especially if seas keep rising and wetlands keep collapsing into the Gulf...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Gustav's Lessons for New Orleans | 9/4/2008 | See Source »

...compared with just 10% at Harvard or Yale. That means that replacing loans with grants at the California schools would cost significantly more. Add in political pressures to avoid increasing tuition and fees - a large percentage of which go to fund financial aid in California - and the idea of eliminating all loans is a nonstarter...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The New Battle over Financial Aid | 9/4/2008 | See Source »

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