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...beginning of Planet Earth, and it will continue to do so. It is ridiculous to assume that global climate can be controlled by more or less CO2 emissions. It seems that many people have forgotten that CO2 is a basic need for the earth's vegetation. More CO2 increases plant growth and harvests. The fight against carbon emissions and climate change is nothing but ideological and political hype. This will become apparent when the next and inevitable cooling period occurs. Dietrich E. Koelle Ottobrunn, Germany If the world is waking up to the reality that global warming is here...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Outstanding European Individuals | 11/28/2006 | See Source »

...risk experts put it, are hiding in plain sight. Most people no longer doubt that global warming is happening, yet we live and work in air-conditioned buildings and drive gas-guzzling cars. Most people would be far likelier to participate in a protest at a nuclear power plant than at a tobacco company, but it's smoking, not nukes, that kills an average of 1,200 Americans every single...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: How Americans Are Living Dangerously | 11/26/2006 | See Source »

...Siamese infidels." He quickly graduates to vandalism?for example, burning the Thai flags that villagers are ordered by the authorities to display outside their homes?and then to actual militant attacks, acting as a lookout or helping to block roads with felled trees or burning tires. Later, he might plant a bomb in a teashop or other public place, which others will remotely detonate. Later still, he might remotely detonate it himself...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: In Death's Shadow | 11/26/2006 | See Source »

...sleepy eastern town of Guiria, the local governor, a Chavez ally, was quick to blame the violence on "a group of people who want to destabilize the country." But when asked, fishermen said the conflict was far from political. They just wanted to be able to use their ice plant again, they said, since the port authority had shut it down. And while the opposition did paralyze the oil industry during strikes in 2002 and 2003, the national oil company has continued to blame accidents at its installations on "sabotage" rather than concede that they could be company blunders...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: In Venezuela, It's Support Chavez — Or Else | 11/21/2006 | See Source »

...Wilmer Valderrama (“That 70’s Show”), Catalina Sandino Moreno (“Maria Full of Grace”), and Ana Claudia Talancon (“Alone With Her”) successfully play out the drama of illegal immigrant workers at the meatpacking plant. Their acting can be deemed “successful” probably because they spoke in Spanish with English subtitles; their speeches about drug use and American materialism felt less forced than correlating political rants by their English-speaking cast mates. Ashley Johnson (“Nearing Grace?...

Author: By Mollie K. Wright, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: MOVIE REVIEW: "Fast Food Nation" | 11/16/2006 | See Source »

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