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...grabbed the country's fourth sailing gold of the games on Aug. 21, British athletes - track star Christine Ohuruogu, the only member of the team to win standing up, among them - had bagged 39 medals, including 17 golds - Britain's best haul in a century. Only the far larger countries of China, with 46 gold medals, and the U.S., with 28, have done better in Beijing...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Beijing Unstiffens Brits' Upper Lips | 8/22/2008 | See Source »

...larger problem is that the Presidential campaign has been captured by a mostly meaningless debate over offshore drilling, which is obscuring a far more relevant question regarding the energy crisis: how can America develop workable alternative fuels - right here and right...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Putting US Energy in the Wrong Place | 8/20/2008 | See Source »

...whose teachers enrolled in the program performed slightly better on standardized tests compared with students with non-ProComp teachers. Denver also saw statewide assessment scores improve substantially this past school year, with the district now outperforming state gains in all grade levels in reading, writing and science. Moreover, a larger number of teachers are applying to work at Denver's toughest schools, one of the chief goals of the program...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Merit-Pay Standoff in Denver | 8/19/2008 | See Source »

...disease-specific iPS lines will soon be deposited in the new HSCI iPS Core Facility at Harvard-affiliated Mass. General Hospital to be produced at a larger scale for distribution among the scientific community...

Author: By June Q. Wu, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Harvard Researchers Create Disease-Specific Cell Lines | 8/18/2008 | See Source »

Walter Dix saved some face by winning 100-meter bronze, but the larger problem is that no American will likely win a triple. A few U.S. sprinters take a race and a relay, but Bolt has a good chance to bag the most gold. Even the U.S. shot putters, who were supposed to sweep, let the team down. On Friday, all they managed was a silver. First all those doping scandal, and now a start like this? NBC shut track out of a live primetime spot in the States. That's beginning to look pretty smart - unless America is ready...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Bolting to a World Record | 8/16/2008 | See Source »

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