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...French wine critic Jacques Dupont doubts the message is reaching everyone, though?especially the lower-end, Bordeaux-producing majority. "For too long they have neglected marketing," he says. "I believe we've hit rock bottom, but now they must rise from this crisis with new ways of functioning." If nothing else, many viticulturalists will learn how to toast in Japanese this year?kampai...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cheers Leader | 6/12/2006 | See Source »

...year. The amount of waste that comes out of a coal-fired power plant is around 1,000 tonnes a day." Used fuel rods can be reprocessed into new fuel, reducing the volume of waste that needs to be stored by over 90%; turning the waste into synthetic rock reduces this even further. If it's not reprocessed, this high-level waste stays toxic for 1,000 years or more. Nuclear opponents say storage is a serious problem and that existing facilities are almost full. France, Sweden, Finland and the U.S. have built or are planning long-term storage vaults...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Plugging in to Nuclear | 6/12/2006 | See Source »

...enough to have concentrated their efforts on quality and promotion are rapidly taking back the market." French wine critic Jacques Dupont doubts the message is reaching everyone though - especially the lower-end, Bordeaux-producing majority. "For too long they have neglected marketing," he says. "I believe we've hit rock bottom, but now they must rise from this crisis with new ways of functioning." If nothing else, many viticulturalists will learn how to toast in Japanese this year - kampaï! bordeaux-fete-le-vin.com

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cheers Leader | 6/11/2006 | See Source »

...team considered other models--a dartboard with a perfect outcome as the bull's-eye, or a minefield, in which a mine represents death and a rock might be, say, nausea. That analogy failed. ("People thought they could step over the side effects," he says.) The roulette wheel best illustrated the range of outcomes. With medical care, as with that little white ball, says Hoffman, "you know that it could land anywhere...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The High Stakes of Medicine | 6/11/2006 | See Source »

...elite. ?People power is taking the country by storm? because they ?have failed us.? That may be true, but the political elite, at least, wants to make it up to them. Or at least buy them a drink. After Moulitsas wraps up, people tumble across town to the Hard Rock Caf? casino, where Wesley Clark hosts a beer-and-wine open bar while a montage of suspiciously candidate-like poses plays on televisions around the room. Friday night, former Virginia governor and potential 2008 contender Mark Warner is pouring the booze. New Mexico governor Bill Richardson, also a rumored presidential...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Why Ambitious Pols Make Their Pilgrimage to Yearly Kos | 6/9/2006 | See Source »

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