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...corporate circles, the "double bottom line"?reaping profit and doing social good?is all the rage. Muhammad Yunus, the microfinancier who won the Nobel Peace Prize in 2006 for helping prove that making tiny loans to poor people can be profitable, says we should go further. In CREATING A WORLD WITHOUT POVERTY: SOCIAL BUSINESS AND THE FUTURE OF CAPITALISM, he sketches out a new type of company, one that exists only to better people's lives. Investors who start such a firm would be repaid their initial stake once the company turned a profit, but after that...
...Electric cars, which have existed for more than 100 years, are becoming all the rage - both GM and Toyota have said they will manufacture plug-in hybrids by 2010. But Agassi's plan stands out because it focuses on the infrastructure for recharging cars instead of on the vehicles themselves...
...debate over Jesus' supposed tomb will probably rage for years to come. But the conference attendees voted unanimously that the tomb, now sealed over with concrete in the garden of a suburban apartment building, should be reopened and examined more carefully. "I feel vindicated," Jacobovici told TIME. "It's moved from 'it can't be the Jesus' family tomb' to 'it could...
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Cosmic textures--weird tangles in the fabric of space-time that could help account for a lumpy universe--were a rage in the physics community in the 1990s, before satellite observations seemed to rule them out. "I lost interest in textures more than a decade ago," says Neil Turok, chairman of the department of mathematical physics at Cambridge University and one of the fathers of the field...