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...year-old wife Iris had embarked on an affair with a teenager two years ago. Then came the allegations that she had obtained $80,000 from two property developers to help her lover set up a café and that Peter Robinson, upon learning of the deal, failed to report it. Finally, following days of lurid headlines, the political fallout began...
Ever since the U.N. Food and Agriculture Organization released a 2006 report that attributed 18% of the world's man-made greenhouse-gas emissions to livestock - more, the report noted, than what's produced by transportation - livestock has taken an increasingly hard rap. At first, it was just vegetarian groups that used the U.N.'s findings as evidence for the superiority of an all-plant diet. But since then, a broader range of environmentalists has taken up the cause. At a recent European Parliament hearing titled "Global Warming and Food Policy: Less Meat = Less Heat," Rajendra Pachauri, chairman...
...wildlife conservationist in Zimbabwe, Savory once blamed overgrazing for desertification. "I was prepared to shoot every bloody rancher in the country," he recalls. But through rotational grazing of large herds of ruminants, he found he could reverse land degradation, turning dead soil into thriving grassland. (See TIME's special report on the environment...
...extensions as part of its $154 billion second stimulus package, and the Senate is set to consider that. On Jan. 10 presidential economic adviser Christina Romer suggested that there was a "need to do more." With unemployment hanging at a stubborn 10% and the release of another troubling jobs report last week, why not do more for the jobless...
...that image is everywhere - a once untouchably popular figure unable to connect as President the way he did as a candidate or shine the light of hope and change on the dingy business of governing. As his approval rating fell almost 20 points, to below 50%, the freshman report cards talked about irate independents and mutinous liberals and how even Michelle can't radiate enough warmth to compensate for his apparent lack of a pulse. (See pictures of Barack Obama on Flickr...