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Dates: during 2000-2009
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That's debatable, to say the least. There's no question that a nuclear plant, once it's up and running, produces comparatively little carbon dioxide - a British government report last year found that a nuclear plant emits just 2% to 6% of the CO2 per kilowatt-hour as natural gas, the cleanest fossil fuel - but nuclear energy still seems like the power of yesterday. After a burst of construction between the 1950s and late 1970s, a new nuclear power plant hasn't come on line in the U.S. since 1996, and some nations like Germany are looking to phase...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Is Nuclear Power Viable? | 6/6/2008 | See Source »

...meal of salted rice for her children. While she feeds them, her husband sifts through the mounds of grease-stained cardboard boxes, plastic bags, and broken glass that crowd their home. He'll sell his rotten harvest for about $3.50. For their family of seven, that?s 50 cents per person, per day. The arithmetic is simple, Bing says. "With every child I have, there is less rice each. I can?t give them all a good life...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Philippines' Birth Control Battle | 6/6/2008 | See Source »

...definitely thinks oil prices are due for a fall. That's why he sold. But he makes no claim to having gotten the timing perfect. After he sold out in May and oil kept rising, past $135 per bbl., Rainwater briefly thought he'd made a terrible mistake. The price has since subsided a little, and he has calmed down a little. Still, he says, "It's a call that I've made, but who knows? Who knows if I'm early...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Will the Oil Bubble Burst? | 6/5/2008 | See Source »

SEAN MCCORMACK State Department spokesman, after reinstating the scholarships per Rice's orders "She wasn't pleased...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Verbatim | 6/5/2008 | See Source »

SIMPSONS voice actors' salaries bumped up to nearly $400,000 per episode...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Pop Chart | 6/5/2008 | See Source »

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