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...meantime, General Schneiderhan may have to steel himself for more complaints. U.S. President Barack Obama has pledged to beef up the U.S. military presence in Afghanistan, but will he be able to persuade NATO allies, including Germany, to increase their own efforts there? The German parliamentary troop mandate that limits the army mostly to peacekeeping and reconstruction efforts runs out in December, after the federal elections. When that happens, German soldiers could find that uncomfortable sleeping bags are the least of their problems...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Will Germany's Army Ever Be Ready for Battle? | 6/27/2009 | See Source »

...though leaders acknowledged that it would be close. "I don't know that we'll get 218 hard yeses ahead of time, but there's a sense that once you put it on the floor the votes will be there," said Representative Mike Doyle, a Democrat who represents a steel-manufacturing district in western Pennsylvania. Doyle was initially leery of the bill, but was brought around by concessions from Energy & Commerce Committee chairman Henry Waxman. Those changes and other last-minute compromises made to appease Agriculture Committee chairman Collin Peterson are "going to go a long way toward getting...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Global-Warming's Rough Ride Through Congress | 6/26/2009 | See Source »

...critics, the bill does have the backing of dozens of groups, including unions - even steel workers and coal miners - as well as six of the seven largest utilities, the Nuclear Energy Institute and, tacitly, Wall Street, which will benefit from the creation of a massive new energy-trading market. The majority of environmental groups support the bill, including the Natural Resources Defense Council and the League of Conservation Voters, even if some groups feel that the measure is too weak. When Waxman announced the agreement in a press conference Wednesday, about 30 supporters wearing T shirts and carrying placards that...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Global-Warming's Rough Ride Through Congress | 6/26/2009 | See Source »

...that had little to do with conventional fashion shows. Visitors to "Free Within Borders" can watch video footage of Allerleirauh's fashion extravaganzas, which - with music composed especially for the shows and special effects including fountains of fire, fake fog and giant human "birds" flying through the air on steel cables - are best described as a mixture of apocalyptic party, theater and performance art. "It was a comment on the downfall of the G.D.R. without really knowing that it was going to happen," Gericke says...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Fearless Fashion in the Former East Germany | 6/24/2009 | See Source »

...answer is wind power, the technology that has become synonymous with going green. Companies that started out small, like Denmark's Vestas and India's Suzlon Energy, have become multinational giants selling steel and fiberglass wind turbines; even blue chippers like General Electric have identified wind power as a major revenue source for the future, while the construction and installation of wind turbines will employ workers here in the U.S. Investing in wind power, said President Barack Obama at a turbine factory in Iowa on Earth Day, "is a win-win. It's good for the environment; it's great...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Can Wind Power Get Up to Speed? | 6/23/2009 | See Source »

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