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...Democrats big and brassy and confident; Republican gatherings smaller and more dutiful. It was easy to find voters who said they had decided for Edwards or Obama but had great respect for Clinton and thought she'd make a fine President as well. Many Republican voters talked about a lesser of evils...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Voters' Revenge | 1/10/2008 | See Source »

...increase in carbon dioxide in the near future will come from outside the developed world. But while funders are flocking to CDM, with over 1,500 projects in the pipeline by the end of 2006, the vast majority of those are in rapidly growing China and to a lesser extent India. Indonesia - a country of 234 million, which hosted the U.N.'s climate change conference in December - is involved in just 2% of global CDM projects. That needs to increase, and fast, for Indonesia and the rest of the world...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Trash Problems in Paradise | 1/7/2008 | See Source »

...Affecting up to 90% of women in Egypt, Sudan and Somalia, FGM is widely seen as an African phenomenon. But it also happens to a lesser extent throughout the Middle East, particularly in Yemen, Saudi Arabia, Jordan and Iraq...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: An End to Female Genital Cutting? | 1/4/2008 | See Source »

...magazine’s Dec. 10 issue, reporter Anthony Bianco wrote that Faust believes “it would be wise” for “lesser universities” to shift their focus away from hard science, given the fierce competition for federal funding...

Author: By Jamison A. Hill, Clifford M. Marks, and Nathan C. Strauss, CRIMSON STAFF WRITERSS | Title: Harvard Disputes Faust Quotations in BusinessWeek Article | 12/14/2007 | See Source »

...certainly "unusual" for a private actor like Major League Baseball to operate in a law enforcement realm. "It's weird," says Rick Karcher, a professor at the Florida Coastal School of Law. "Why would the state have incentive to do that? 'Yeah, we'll give you a lesser sentence, if you talk to baseball...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Mitchell Named Names. Now What? | 12/13/2007 | See Source »

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