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But the world energy market is “likely to remain deceptively stable through the mid-1980s.” the IEA report says. And therein lies the danger, for people and governments will begin once more to neglect the energy issue and ignore pleas for continued conservation. True...

Author: By Antony J. Blinken | Title: Guzzling Away | 6/2/2008 | See Source »

The people there don't just live on the edge of Indian society - they live beyond it, in a void that successive governments in New Delhi have neglected for decades. In this part of the country, far removed from the famed call centers of modern India, there are no roads...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: India's Secret War | 5/29/2008 | See Source »

All of us, but especially people in charge - of a city, a theater, a business - should recognize that people can be trusted to do their best at the worst of times. They will do even better if they are encouraged to play a significant role in their own survival before...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Survival Guide to Catastrophe | 5/29/2008 | See Source »

Clearly the McCanns saw the inevitable renewed interest the anniversary would bring as a chance to not only make new pleas for information, but to perhaps rehabilitate their shaky image. Hence, the access they gave the documentary filmmaker for ITV, a major British channel, and a subsequent inteview they gave...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Madeleine McCann, One Year Later | 5/1/2008 | See Source »

...greeted me with the same big smile and handshake I had gotten 20 minutes earlier. Same pleas to get home: "Please, can't you help me, Scott?" (I gave him the same "We're working on it" cop-out.) He regaled me with a different story about the boys at the club, though, with different details. But no reference to my earlier rounds. When I asked, "Do you remember what we talked about 20 minutes ago?" he was all smiles and familiar reassurances. But when I asked for specifics, they were wrong. That was it. He was confabulating...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: When What the Patient Wants Isn't Best | 4/23/2008 | See Source »

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