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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...Trinity College Dublin, has been one of the most vocal critics of the scheme. "We end up with a situation where we bail out shareholders and bondholders first, then deal with taxpayers, rather than the other way round," he says. "The taxpayers are on the hook anyway. The question is, What do they...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Irish Angry Over Big Bailout of the Country's Banks | 10/26/2009 | See Source »

...cooling, which were held briefly by some scientists in the early 1970s - that's a common trope for climate contrarians, who say that if concerns over cooling turned out to be false, maybe the same thing will come of the current worries over global warming. They go on to question the accuracy of today's climate models, and by extension, whether we should really be concerned about potentially catastrophic temperature increases over the coming century. They further point out that plants may indeed thrive in a future with higher carbon dioxide levels - after all, greenhouses pump in extra...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Are the Freakonomics Folks Off Base on Global Warming? | 10/26/2009 | See Source »

...could get worse. I ask the young men why they persist if, as they say, the police fire at the known stone throwers first. Most laugh off the question with bravado. But Baig is darkly serious. He will keep throwing stones, he says, "until death." If there is another future for him in Kashmir, the time for it is running...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: India's War at Home | 10/26/2009 | See Source »

...lets you be your own boss is a job most folks wouldn't turn down. With the effort to rein in health-care costs increasingly framed as an unhappy trade-off in which insurers either slash benefits or raise premiums, some in Washington are beginning to ask a question long considered off-limits: Do we simply pay doctors too much...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Is There a Better Way to Pay Doctors? | 10/26/2009 | See Source »

...least make foreclosure less painful and less costly. "Potentially, one of the most significant [defenses] is that the lender, because so many home loans were securitized during the housing boom, often doesn't even know who owns the mortgage anymore," says Froomkin. That, he adds, could throw into question the lender's right to bring the foreclosure case in the first place...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Where Are All the Foreclosure Lawyers? | 10/24/2009 | See Source »

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