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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...retailers are bullish about the discounts, it's the book business that's throwing a fit. "The fear is that people get used to paying less for books than it costs to make them, which puts downward price pressure on everything," says Michael Norris, a publishing-industry analyst for research firm Simba Information. Wholesale prices for publishers and advances for authors could...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Walmart, Target, Amazon: Book Price War Heats Up | 10/27/2009 | See Source »

...SIGG was one of the companies that profited from all the bad publicity over BPA," says Elaine Shannon, editor in chief of the Environmental Working Group, an environmental science research and advocacy group in Washington. Shannon's group urged SIGG last month to offer customers full refunds; SIGG declined. (See a quick guide to FDA regulations...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: How Green Is Your SIGG Water Bottle? | 10/27/2009 | See Source »

SIGG has been around for more than 100 years, but it's been fairly recently that its bottles have popped up everywhere, with everyone. Much of its popularity can be traced to research publicized in 2007 about BPA's questionable safety. Since then, Chicago, Connecticut and Michigan have restricted the chemical, and more than 20 states are considering similar bans. The Environmental Protection Agency has placed BPA on a priority review list...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: How Green Is Your SIGG Water Bottle? | 10/27/2009 | See Source »

...Research Building at Harvard Medical School has been named one of the recipients of the annual Merit Award for Design Excellence from the New England Chapter of the American Institute of Architects...

Author: By Shijung Kim, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: HMS Building Receives Award | 10/27/2009 | See Source »

Election observers have asked for more such stations to be closed, citing fears of continued abuses, but they also recognize the need to balance rural areas' right to vote with the risk of fraud. Haroun Mir, director of Afghanistan's Center for Research and Policy Studies, says such an approach risks alienating the very people whom a new President needs most to ensure his legitimacy. "If the Independent Election Commission doesn't open sites where the Taliban is strong, they are telling the Pashtuns in the south that your vote doesn't count," he says...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Afghan Runoff: Will It Be a No-Show Election? | 10/26/2009 | See Source »

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