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...convene a conference of intellectuals and statesmen and to demonstrate the superior powers of the aliens by bringing all the Earth's mechanized powers to a halt for a few minutes. If that warning didn't take, he mentioned the possibility of burning Earth "to a crisp" in order to preserve intergalactic peace...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Day the Earth Stood Still: Alienating | 12/12/2008 | See Source »

...unpredictable votes. "Evidently, the only thing that matters to the majority on the other side of the aisle is that workers get paid too much in this country, and unless we sock it to the worker, they will not be willing to allow a $14 billion bridge loan in order to save an industry," said Senator Debbie Stabenow, a Michigan Democrat. "This is not tonight about Democrat and Republican. This is not about auto executives vs. workers. It's about the economy...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: After Auto-Bailout Blowup, Will Bush Take the Wheel? | 12/12/2008 | See Source »

...McInturff said that it wasn’t worth potentially tarnishing McCain’s character in order to win by what would have been the slimmest of margins...

Author: By Malcom A. Glenn and Laurence H. M. holland, CRIMSON STAFF WRITERSS | Title: Axelrod: Economy’s Fall Made Obama’s Rise | 12/12/2008 | See Source »

...time, the shuttle had flown 290 people, and out of those 14 were dead - nearly one in 20," says Scott Horowitz, a four-time shuttle veteran who designed the Ares 1, one of the new boosters. "We needed something that was an order of magnitude safer...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Does Obama Want to Ground NASA's Next Moon Mission? | 12/11/2008 | See Source »

...student, as Miss King's 2008. On stage, she spoke of her ambitions to become a human rights lawyer, made references to the works of Jane Austen and dispelled myths about her Thai background. "Before you ask," Roberts told the judges, "I'm not a ladyboy or a mail-order bride." In that sense, the pageant just might have slayed some stereotypes after...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A British Row Over College Beauty Pageants | 12/11/2008 | See Source »

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