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...Some Cambodians may be wondering whether an eighth tray should be added to the ceremony, this one holding a pool of oil. Around 2010, a cluster of offshore fields is expected to begin yielding significant amounts of oil and natural gas, radically changing the Cambodian economy. Optimistic estimates suggest that future oil revenue could dwarf the country's current GDP. But will any of this money trickle down to Cambodia's poor? Economists aren't sure, warning of a Nigerian-style oil curse that could simply make a privileged few very rich and leave the vast majority of people penniless...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: What the Cows Foretell | 5/31/2007 | See Source »

...years--it isn't just autos," Dingell acknowledged proudly. Besides, he added, neither he nor Detroit is to blame for the fact that overall mileage of the U.S. auto fleet hasn't improved. Americans simply prefer high-performance, four-wheel-drive towing machines, even for the preschool car pool. And in this free country, "if the people want something," he said, "they...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: An Auto Insider Takes on Climate Change | 5/31/2007 | See Source »

...will be preserved." If anything, he amplified the classicism of the space behind the old building by positioning the longest and most conventionally rectangular of his lenses at a perpendicular to the museum's rear façade. That created a square courtyard with a serene reflecting pool where the parking lot used...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Light at the Museum | 5/31/2007 | See Source »

...would be the first to offer IVF patients the option of growing, freezing and banking their own embryonic stem cells. Until now, couples undergoing in vitro fertilization could not earmark stem cells derived from their embryos for their own future use; they could only donate them to the nationwide pool of embryos used for stem cell research...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Banking on Stem Cells | 5/30/2007 | See Source »

...roster of an upcoming U-20 training camp in Canada. The camp, which takes place in three of the six sites that will be used for the World Cup this summer, will not only help head coach Thomas Rongen decide which players from the U-20 Team pool will represent the United States at the World Cup, but will also give the team a chance to play on the fields that will be used during the tournament. Akpan, who scored over a quarter of the U.S.’s total goals during the team’s showing...

Author: By Alexandra J. Mihalek, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Akpan Named to Training Camp Roster | 5/30/2007 | See Source »

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