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...Clean Air Act and that top-down regulation would lay a heavy burden on U.S. business. "An endangerment finding from the EPA could result in a top-down command-and-control regime that will choke off growth by adding new mandates to virtually every major construction and renovation project," said U.S. Chamber of Commerce President and CEO Thomas J. Donohue...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: EPA Moves to Regulate CO2 as a Hazard to Health | 12/7/2009 | See Source »

...this sounds like a dog lover's more-the-merrier fantasy - 101 Dalmatians times five - think again. The rehabilitation of even one fighting dog is a long and uncertain project. First comes the medical care. Beyond their obvious wounds and infections, some of the dogs arrive with broken ribs and internal injuries - from being kicked. After the physical exams comes a psychological evaluation. Experienced animal handlers gauge the dog's mental condition: How aggressive is it? How traumatized? How far gone? This screening is a final life-or-death ordeal for a dog, because a fighter that cannot be tamed...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Can Attack Dogs Be Rehabilitated? | 12/7/2009 | See Source »

...pair moved to New York City and began to dream about larger projects. Over the years they wrapped the Pont-Neuf in Paris and Berlin's Reichstag in bright woven fabric, ran a 24.5-mile (39.4 km) curtain fence across the Northern California landscape and created the completely enchanting project called The Gates--7,503 saffron-colored fabric panels that hung from what looked like portable goalposts positioned every few yards along the paths of New York City's Central Park...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Jeanne-Claude | 12/7/2009 | See Source »

This summer, Education Secretary Arne Duncan set a national goal to turn around the bottom 1% of America's schools - approximately 5,000 of them - over the next five years. While he has since dialed back the scope of the project (the Education Department now expects the funds to tackle 1,200 or so schools), the objective remains the same. "My goal isn't quantity but quality," Duncan told TIME in July. "That bottom 1% are made up of dropout factories, where 50, 60, 75% of kids are dropping out. Change around the edges isn't going...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Calling Out America's Worst Schools: A $3.5 Billion Plan | 12/4/2009 | See Source »

Meanwhile, over in California, the Marin Composting Portable Odorless Outhouse Project, a.k.a. MCPOOP, is doing Klehm one better. The goal of MCPOOP (which is pronounced the Irish way as opposed to the rap-star way) is to get the government into the night-soil business and put humanure toilets in county parks and town squares. The group is less than a month old but already has the support of the local environmental establishment and Marin County supervisor Steve Kinsey. "The whole thing is like a good acid flashback," says Kinsey. "We approved several experimental permits like this...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Humanure: Goodbye, Toilets. Hello, Extreme Composting | 12/4/2009 | See Source »

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