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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 »

Soon after, the flamboyant Johnny Mostiler, a local lawyer known for his abundant jewelry, handlebar moustache and overwhelming caseload, became his attorney. In those days, Mostiler represented all the indigent inmates in the county for a flat annual fee, hundreds and hundreds of felony cases. His clients often filed into...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: If Your Lawyer Wants You Executed | 6/2/2008 | See Source »

All in all, Osborne's has been a fairly typical capital appeal, in which the defense team heaps allegations on the original lawyer - the high-living Mostiler died of a coronary in 2000 - while the prosecution extols the brilliance of the condemned man's trial attorney. "Mostiler was the toughest...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: If Your Lawyer Wants You Executed | 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 »

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