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...warning from the International Energy Agency (IEA), an intergovernmental energy watchdog based in Paris, could add extra weight to the negotiations leading up to the climate-change summit in Copenhagen next month, when leaders will attempt to come to an agreement on a successor to the Kyoto Protocol's limits on greenhouse-gas emissions. "Saving the planet cannot wait," reads the agency's annual World Energy Outlook report, which was released on Tuesday. "The time to act has arrived." (See pictures of new ways to boost energy efficiency...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: After the Recession, an Energy Crisis Could Loom | 11/10/2009 | See Source »

...appeared skeptical. Putin said any decision on sanctions would be made not by Medvedev alone but by Russia's Security Council, which also includes himself, his Cabinet subordinates and parliamentary leaders loyal to the Prime Minister. Administration officials deny taking sides. Yet on the eve of his July summit in Moscow, Obama praised Medvedev and referred to Putin as having "one foot in the old ways of doing business." He later praised Putin too, but his Administration has done little to build bridges with the Prime Minister, who remains a crucial national decision maker. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Moscow in the Middle | 11/9/2009 | See Source »

...farce of this notion can only be assuaged if one remembers that Chavez is the world leader who, infamously, cornered President Obama at the Summit of the Americas this spring to give him a book about foreign (read: American) exploitation in the Americas. Chavez, in his personal world, has the right to put the American president on the spot like this. He also was justified, presumably, in writing, “For Obama, with warm regards,” inside the book, because though the two are close enough that Chavez might give him the book uninvited, Obama...

Author: By Alexander R. Konrad | Title: Chavez Can’t Shun the Spotlight | 11/9/2009 | See Source »

...TIME's photo-essay "Radical Love: The Sisters of Summit...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Priests Spar Over What It Means to Be Catholic | 11/8/2009 | See Source »

...issue came to a head on Nov. 1 when the blogger Michael Arrington of Tech Crunch confronted some of the advertising providers at a virtual goods summit with accusations of scammy behavior. He blogged about it and also managed to find a former social-networking ad executive who admitted that the industry knew that not all the ads were on the up-and-up. (See how to plan for retirement...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Are You Getting Scammed by Facebook Games? | 11/6/2009 | See Source »

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