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The government has to avoid regulating the wrong participants, thereby pushing the price-discovery mechanism for oil out of the hands of Americans and into those of foreign oil suppliers. Do we want the government punishing some financial investors while letting others - the ones who have the strongest motive to...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Why There Should Be More Oil Speculation, Not Less | 7/10/2009 | See Source »

Now a new paper published in the July 6 Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS) by a team of researchers at Princeton University offers a possible way out of the diplomatic dead end. Instead of simply considering carbon emissions on a national or per capita level, the Princeton...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Study: A Fairer Way to Cut Global CO2 Emissions | 7/7/2009 | See Source »

In a sign that Google has been listening to critics' complaints, it recently signed an amended individual agreement with the University of Michigan, adding a mechanism that would give the university the right to dispute a price increase through arbitration. Any price discrepancy in the arbitrated settlement would come from...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Librarians Fighting Google's Book Deal | 6/17/2009 | See Source »

Jones adds to this familiar elements from many a space epic or action movie. Sam might be the cop who is just days from a well-earned retirement, and who is bound to get bumped off so the hero can avenge him. There's also the ticking-clock mechanism of...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Moon: A Superior Space Oddity | 6/14/2009 | See Source »

But before that can happen, he warns, more studies need to be done on how well metoclopramide actually controls nausea. At the moment, the drug, which calms digestive activity by slowing the contraction of intestinal muscles, is approved by the FDA only for the treatment of heartburn and other intestinal...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Study: A Safe Drug for Morning Sickness? | 6/10/2009 | See Source »

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