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...corporate behavior that are necessary to prevent increasing environmental damage and that require immediate restrictions on companies that pollute is "if the vast majority of the world's scientists are right, we have just ten years to avert a major catastrophe that could send our entire planet into a tail-spin of epic destruction involving extreme weather, floods, droughts, epidemics and killer heat waves beyond anything we have ever experienced." It is frightening and it is likely to be true, although Gore's theories have detractors...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Even Al Gore Can't Bring Attention to the Environment and Recession | 5/18/2009 | See Source »

...executive, speaking anonymously to Germany's Der Spiegel magazine, put it more simply: "The tail is no longer wagging...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Porsche and VW Agree to a Merger | 5/7/2009 | See Source »

...close friend Harrod Blank remarked that Kennedy's works were, "ironically, inspired by the sea." So it was true to form that Kennedy dubbed his first creation--originally a Nissan Sentra--Ripper the Friendly Shark. He equipped the working car with a toothy jaw and a tail that swished...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Tom Kennedy | 4/23/2009 | See Source »

...Moscow's announcement will lead to the withdrawal of about 20,000 federal troops. But declaring "victory" in Chechnya also adds to the sense that Kadyrov has become the tail that wags the Russian dog. He has been lobbying for a pullout for months and experts say it will allow him to strengthen his already firm grip. "He has built a state within a state," says Doukaev. "The Kadyrov government is a problem for Moscow. They have no control over him. This decision gives him a free rein to operate...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Russia's Chechnya Pullout: Compromise Over Victory | 4/20/2009 | See Source »

...weeks ago here in the former British colony as he evaluated his political options in China. "Hong Kong also has a reputation for not caring about politics. But it is still a good platform." And so the publisher, who still wears a backpack and has a pony tail, left the interview and ran to the next meeting. Like others in the Hu Yaobang generation, he is determined to charge on until the day when he is allowed to commemorate Hu in a land where things actually took place - the mainland...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Hong Kong Dissidents Get Organized As Tiananmen Anniversary Draws Near | 4/17/2009 | See Source »

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