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That's partly because, as Brown himself pointed out, "almost every country in the world followed" where he led in the fall, introducing their own variants on the recapitalization scheme. But it's also because Britain is no longer in the vanguard in dealing with the crisis. Germany's recently...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Gordon Brown Rescues British Banks — Again | 1/19/2009 | See Source »

Then, Muzaffar said, they were all taken aboard a navy vessel, which towed an empty, open-deck barge behind it. The ship, he said in the transcript, sailed for a day and a half into international waters, at which point it stopped and the navy men allegedly ordered the refugees...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Abandoned at Sea: The Sad Plight of the Rohingya | 1/18/2009 | See Source »

My biggest problem living with a Maasai family in Tanzania was not the roof made of sticks and cow shit that I slept under nightly. It was actually the nightly war against my homestay sister for space on the family cowhide where we slept. I would settle down as best...

Author: By Megan A. Shutzer, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Coming of Age in Ngare Sero | 1/15/2009 | See Source »

Louisiana Republican Senator David Vitter chimed in with concerns about the Clinton Global Initiative, which he noted was not covered by the disclosure requirements of the memorandum of understanding, and could therefore become a place for anonymous fundraising. (Foundation spokesman Matt McKenna says the Global Initiative is, in fact, in...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Blip in Hillary Clinton's Senate Lovefest: Bill's Donations | 1/14/2009 | See Source »

Clearly, that a lower ratio pointed to higher profits speaks to a little more than finger length. Earlier studies indicated that prenatal exposure to testosterone, which spikes between the 9th and 18th weeks of gestation, increases a person's sensitivity to the effects of the hormone much later in life...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Successful Traders: The Testosterone Effect | 1/12/2009 | See Source »

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