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How can competing claims to the Arctic - of environmentalists and entrepreneurs, nations and natives - be reconciled? Antarctica, with no native population, has been saved from international competition by a treaty signed in 1959, which (among other things) bans all mining there until 2041. There have always been advocates of such...
There are particular demands to a star's job - basically, to be photographed looking great while pretending to be other people - but it's not exactly coal-mining in West Virginia. So some of them give back to the world that gave them so much; Clooney, whom I'd call...
The writer Nicholas von Hoffman had a slogan during Vietnam: "draft old men's money, not young men's bodies." The military draft raises special issues. When "volunteerism" may involve paying the ultimate price, it is very tempting to say this really is something you should not be able to...
Whether the French call Noriega a POW is more than academic, says Detlev Vagts, who teaches international law at Harvard. "You have to refrain from transferring a POW to a country that you think won't treat him as a POW," Vagts told TIME. "We returned a lot of German...
Wildlife and rural life are already on the retreat, though, in places like Minturn, tucked under sharp cliffs at an ear-popping altitude of 7,800 ft. Developers, second-home builders and fast-money types view the old ranching-and-mining community of 1,200 as the next Vail or...