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...posed very little problem. In the 1830s, when Dutch inventor Sibrandus Stratingh created an electromagnetic cart, the vehicles have always stood out as a cleaner, cost-effective option to the steam or internal combustion engine. From Stratingh's invention evolved actual cars in the late 1800s that could move at low speeds using rechargeable batteries. Quieter and less noxious than their gas-powered counterparts, these electric cars surpassed them in popularity in the early part of the 20th century. One of the best-selling vehicles of that time was the Columbia Runabout, which could go 40 miles on a single...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Electric Car | 1/13/2009 | See Source »

Even those of us who haven't been forced out of our homes are living in constant fear of having to do so, in daily terror of the Israeli military's next move. Israel has infiltrated the local news channels and radio broadcasts. While watching the news, we see the screen go black, and a message comes up for a few moments, saying something along the lines of, "You will witness our wrath." We turn off the television and turn on the radio, only to hear the transmission being interrupted as another message from the Israeli military comes forth: "Leave...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Holding Out in Gaza: Waiting for the Israelis | 1/12/2009 | See Source »

...next move on to more formal manipulations. When trying to comprehend a trillion-dollar deficit, you might calculate how much money that represents per person in the U.S. One trillion dollars divided by 300 million Americans comes out to $3,333. Then you search for a useful comparison. A convenient - though perhaps unsettling - comparison is to the amount of credit-card debt carried by the average person in this country. That figure is $3,245. "So a good way of thinking about government debt financing is that it's similar to what the average person is doing," says Camerer...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: How to Understand a Trillion-Dollar Deficit | 1/11/2009 | See Source »

...page anymore." Andre Johnson, one of two blacks on the seven-member governing board of Washington Parish, says, "although we have a history of racial divisiveness, it was an isolated incident. But as a whole, as a parish, we've come a long way, and we're trying to move toward the future...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Klan Initiation Murder: A Backlash to Obama's Victory? | 1/10/2009 | See Source »

Bush, George W. •claims of that the Obamas couldn't move into Blair House early because it had been previously booked turn out to have been - yes, this, yet again - untrue...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Paul Slansky's Weekly Index of the News | 1/9/2009 | See Source »

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