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...real problem on the Boeing side of the argument is that no one protested Airbus' role as one of two contenders for the contract when everyone thought Boeing had the deal sewn up. In other words, they liked the appearance of competition, but not its reality...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Air Force Snub Good for Boeing | 3/7/2008 | See Source »

...largest producer of the greenhouse gases that cause global warming." China may well have surpassed the U.S., but it is far from proven that greenhouse gases cause global warming. Numerous eminent scientists dispute the findings of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change in this regard. Rather than side with the pundits of gloom about global warming, perhaps TIME could investigate and print the views of those who challenge their claims. David Buckleigh, Rotorua, New Zealand

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Inbox | 3/7/2008 | See Source »

...escalating crisis between Colombia and its neighbors is more than just a case of Andean road rage. It exposes volatile political fault lines not seen in the Americas in a generation. On one side stand President Bush and regional allies led by conservative Colombian President Alvaro Uribe, whose army is accused of invading Ecuador last weekend to kill a Marxist guerrilla boss. Against them stand Venezuela's left-wing President Hugo Chavez, whom Uribe accuses of sponsoring those rebels, and friends such as Ecuador's President Rafael Correa...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Refereeing the Colombia Standoff | 3/6/2008 | See Source »

...everyone in the region has chosen a side: Caught in the middle are the likes of Brazil's center-left President Lula da Silva, trying in vain to bridge the chasm. Right now, that appears to be an intractable diplomatic challenge - not the sort of mess you'd ever expect to be solved by the Organization of American States, long derided as one of the hemisphere's more hopelessly ineffectual institutions...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Refereeing the Colombia Standoff | 3/6/2008 | See Source »

...worked side by side with the government, but there is no longer a revolution here and this is not the government of the '80s," said veteran public health activist Maria Hamlin, who first moved to Nicaragua in 1968. Hamlin said many activists have a hard time supporting a government that recently banned life-saving therapeutic abortions for women. But instead of hearing those criticisms, the current Sandinista government has shut the door on civil society. "It was easier for us to work with the Ministry of Health under previous [conservative] governments than it is now; and that's very...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Twilight of the Sandal-istas | 3/6/2008 | See Source »

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