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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...rises. (Letvin's utility provider just put in for a 30% rate increase for the heaviest power users.) Photovoltaic solar installations were up 45% last year compared with 2006, with about a third of those systems going on residential roofs. And now solar companies and banks are helping homeowners stretch the cost over the lifetime of the panels, and sunny California is at the forefront of this trend. In April, SolarCity, one of the biggest panel installers in the state, began offering no-money-down leases for home installation. Says ceo Lyndon Rive: "If you had the choice of using...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Solar Power Hits Home | 8/7/2008 | See Source »

...role in helping them, but it will take too long if they try to do it alone. It is mainly corporations that have the skills to make technological innovations work for the poor. To make the most of those skills, we need a more creative capitalism: an attempt to stretch the reach of market forces so that more companies can benefit from doing work that makes more people better off. We need new ways to bring far more people into the system - capitalism - that has done so much good in the world...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Making Capitalism More Creative | 7/31/2008 | See Source »

...searched for the truth, again and again. I've loved so many, yet few remember me. They're in my heart. Am I in theirs? I stretch a loving hand - why refuse...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Youssef Chahine: From Egypt With Love and Anger | 7/29/2008 | See Source »

...officials concede that many of these "removals" belonged to gangs, either in prisons or in Hispanic neighborhoods back in the U.S. In Florida and New York, aliens in jail for criminal acts are given a choice halfway through their term to either be deported immediately or serve out their stretch and then be deported. Most go quickly, not realizing that violent death may await them in Central America...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Gangs: the Mara Salvatrucha | 7/27/2008 | See Source »

...Hafedh Aboud Mehdi, Youssef and Ahmed. If the trio had in fact been armed, says an Interior Ministry official, it would have been the first time ever that an Iraqi had gotten a weapon through all the checkpoints to try to carry out an attack on that stretch of road. The contention over what happened - with the Iraqi accounts at odds with the initial U.S. report - had overtones of other controversial episodes, including the 2005 events in Haditha...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Incident on Baghdad's Airport Road | 7/26/2008 | See Source »

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