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...been released, the terms are likely to closely resemble Chrysler's new agreement with the Canadian Auto Workers, ratified over the weekend. The Canadian agreement cuts labor costs to the level paid by non-union plants run by Asian companies such as Toyota, or by $19 Canadian dollars per hour...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Chrysler and General Motors Make New Bids to Survive | 4/27/2009 | See Source »

...reports, President George W. Bush decided in 2002 not to administer a nationwide smallpox vaccination program - despite Vice President Dick Cheney's belief that doing so was a prudent counterterrorism step - because it could have resulted in dozens of deaths (the smallpox vaccine kills between 1 and 2 people per million people inoculated...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: How to Deal with Swine Flu: Heeding the Mistakes of 1976 | 4/27/2009 | See Source »

...placebo group by smelling the contents of their bottle, they were instructed not to tell the researchers which group they were in.) Those who received real bleach were instructed to draw a bath twice a week with a heavily diluted bleach solution - a half-cup of bleach per 40 gallons of water - and immerse their limbs and torsos, leaving the neck and head above water, for five to 10 minutes each time. They were told to pat dry afterward and apply a heavy slathering of moisturizer. The placebo group was not given restrictions about the frequency of baths. Both groups...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Study: Baths with Bleach Help Kids' Eczema | 4/27/2009 | See Source »

...sites in Mexico, including a spot called El Peñón, near the impact crater. They were especially interested in a 30-ft. layer of sediment just above the iridium layer. That sediment, they calculate, was laid down at a rate of about 0.8 in. to 1.2 in. per thousand years, meaning that all 30 feet took 300,000 years to settle into place...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Maybe an Asteroid Didn't Kill the Dinosaurs | 4/27/2009 | See Source »

...Songhua incident is a reminder that in Asia, a region of the world where water is often scarce and often polluted, managing that indispensable resource is vital. Asia is already the world's driest inhabited continent per capita, and as its population, urbanization and dirty industrialization grow - and global warming dries out the region - clean water will only become more precious. As a just-released report by the Asia Society argues, water will become the key to regional security in the 21st century - and Asia isn't ready. "This is a fundamental resource that we need to survive," says Suzanne...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Water Fight | 4/27/2009 | See Source »

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