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...POLLUTION 46,000 Estimated number of floating plastic pieces per square mile (2.6 sq km) of ocean, according to a 2006 U.N. study 56.5 million Tons of plastic (51.3 million metric tons) produced...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Verbatim | 4/17/2008 | See Source »

...passage for responsible Tokyo citizenry. Gaggles of housewives think that being environmentally conscious is a trendy way to care for their families. Once Japanese people embrace an idea, they do so wholeheartedly. Environmental consciousness is no exception. Over the past 34 years, Japan has renewed a 25-yen ($0.25) per liter gasoline tax - anathema in the U.S. - four times. A decade after hosting the conference that led to the Kyoto Protocol, Japan will host the G-8 Summit on Hokkaido this year, which will focus on green issues...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Japanese Way | 4/17/2008 | See Source »

...grow our organic sales, which means--not including any acquisition, not including any currency, all of that--4% to 6% a year in markets that grow a couple of percent a year. So we're obviously trying to build our share. We try to grow our earnings per share by double digits. We have very comfortably been doing that this year. And we think we'll finish the year and deliver that...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Making P&G New and Improved | 4/17/2008 | See Source »

...Hulu does have huge gaps. You can fill in those gaps two ways. One is with money: Apple's pay-per-download iTunes store has a wider selection of TV shows and movies than Hulu, as does Amazon's Unbox service. Two is with your immortal soul: you can download all this stuff for free, illegally, via LimeWire, BitTorrent and lots of other file-sharing systems...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Getting Rid of My TV | 4/17/2008 | See Source »

...works, Abanel is also looking to protect significant French economic interests in the arts sector, which currently employs around 50,000 people across 10,000 companies. Public auctions yield around $2 billion in annual business, and Albanel estimates that sales between private parties represents as much as $10 billion per year. But while the French art market has been growing by around 13% a year, others are growing faster...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: French Art for the French | 4/16/2008 | See Source »

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