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The last President to threaten to veto a water bill was Ronald Reagan, and the result was the last meaningful reforms of the Corps. But the Corps is still responsible for reviewing its own projects, which is kind of like having Keanu Reeves responsible for reviewing his own movies. So...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Setting the Stage for More Katrinas | 8/2/2007 | See Source »

Okay, you won't find the last item in every Russian picnic basket, but Natalya Mironova and Gosman Kabriov aren't your average picnickers - and the sweeping lakes that surround the industrial city of Chelyabinsk, 1400 km (870 miles) southeast of Moscow, aren't your average fishing holes. In fact...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Could the Rich Save Russia's Environment? | 7/24/2007 | See Source »

It's another chapter in a larger debate between scholars known as biblical "minimalists" and "maximalists." Maximalists, who include most conservative Christian experts, tend to accept that those parts of the Bible that include prolific historical detail are probably historically accurate. Minimalists tend to think that they were completed centuries...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Boost for the Book of Jeremiah | 7/21/2007 | See Source »

Lady Bird never liked the term "beautification." What she was doing went beyond that, something to hold the land, bring grace and meaning to scarred lives. "You reporters come up with another word," she used to say. But nobody has yet. Maybe it was unnecessary because she was her own...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Lady Bird Johnson, 1912-2007 | 7/11/2007 | See Source »

Those aren't the motives that have Capitol Hill buzzing, however. Insiders wonder if Dingell has been riled up by Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi, with whom he has a long-running feud. Over the years, Dingell has opposed her rise to party leadership. She, in turn, backed another...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: An Auto Insider Takes on Climate Change | 5/31/2007 | See Source »

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