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...Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon will try to get the negotiation process jump-started next week in New York City, when he hosts a daylong session dedicated to climate change with heads of state. But Washington - and, ultimately, President Obama - still holds the key. As he told delegates at a California climate summit last November, when he was still President-elect: "Now is the time to confront this challenge once and for all. Delay is no longer an option. Denial is no longer an acceptable response. The stakes are too high...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Another Health-Care Casualty: Cap and Trade | 9/16/2009 | See Source »

...point to Harvard and say give more land, but maybe the Community Builders should try to develop this land in a different way,” says Paul Berkeley, president of the Allston Civic Association. “There’s no one person that holds the key...

Author: By Michelle L. Quach and Peter F. Zhu, CRIMSON STAFF WRITERS | Title: Charlesview Plan Awaits Approval | 9/16/2009 | See Source »

...senior Afghan intelligence official told TIME, he is thought to be hiding across the border in Pakistan, moving between the towns of Quetta and Zob in the scorched Baluchistan desert. Nowadays, though, the Taliban encompasses a vast and disparate array of players. A look at who they are is key to understanding why they are gaining ground against 63,000 U.S. troops and their NATO partners after eight years of guerrilla...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Behind the Taliban's Resurgence in Afghanistan | 9/16/2009 | See Source »

...wish we were better at our personal finances, but it's just too confusing - and boring! Secretly, we wish someone else would do it for us. This is the key factor behind the success of Mint.com, a website that was started three years ago by then 25-year-old CEO Aaron Patzer in his Silicon Valley apartment. Now it has been sold to Intuit for a stunning $170 million...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Intuit Buys Mint.com: The Future of Personal Finance? | 9/15/2009 | See Source »

Patzer, along with his key engineers Matt Snider and Poornima Vijayashanker, built Mint using open-source technology, meaning it was pretty much free. They bartered legal advice for a little bit of ownership in the company. After Patzer's apartment got too small, the company moved into shared office space, renting cube by cube. They had a blog and e-mail campaign instead of advertising - and Patzer did a lot of press. For a young guy, he's very mediagenic: "Observe the world around you - everything you do, and especially everything you hate to do - solve a real problem...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Intuit Buys Mint.com: The Future of Personal Finance? | 9/15/2009 | See Source »

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