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...having just given birth to her second child. She had started bleeding from a tear in her cervix, the blood forming a pool on the floor below. Two doctors ran in and stitched her up, relatives found blood supplies, and nurses struggled to connect a generator to the oxygen tank. One nurse jammed an intravenous needle into Conteh's arm, while another hooked a bag of blood to a rusted stand, and a third slapped an oxygen mask over her face. In the corner of the room, a tiny baby--3 hours old--lay on a bed, wailing, swaddled...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Death in Birth | 9/18/2008 | See Source »

...effort months before the election, given the short window available to set up a new government between Election Day and the Inauguration. The Obama campaign has also started a transition-planning effort, recruiting John Podesta - a former chief of staff to President Clinton who now runs a liberal think tank, the Center for American Progress - to help oversee the preparation...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: McCain Taps Lobbyist for Transition | 9/12/2008 | See Source »

...some restaurants are still open, at least until 3 p.m. But the banks closed at 10 a.m., which reminds me: I forgot to get money. Here's hoping I can find an ATM that still has cash. I had to wait in line yesterday to fill up the gas tank, and several of the pumps were...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Houston Waits for Hurricane Ike | 9/12/2008 | See Source »

...Robinson (real name: Robin Ramzinsky) was a hero-stud pro wrestler; he fought "the Ayatollah" top of the card at the Garden. But after 20 years on the downalator, his body ballooned with exercise, bloated with steroids and damaged with the death of a thousand cuts, Randy works tank towns for a few hundred bucks. He's been locked out of his Jersey trailer home for laggard payments. And to secure the fans' roving attention, his ring rivals are getting into extreme fighting; one fellow, who looks like an angry Ozark farmer, asks Randy if, during their bout...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Wrestler: Mickey Rourke's Comeback | 9/6/2008 | See Source »

Brian Ricketts, an analyst at the International Energy Agency, an energy think tank in Paris, says his group expects coal-to-liquids and gas-to-liquids to account for 10% to 15% of world fuel supply by 2050. Even capturing 1% of world oil demand would mean an output of millions of barrels a day--several times Sasol's current global production. Susan Barrows, a chemist and an energy expert at Harrisburg University in Harrisburg, Pa., reckons that given U.S. coal stocks, the country should be able to produce enough oil from coal to replace 30% of its imports...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Dirty Little Secret | 9/4/2008 | See Source »

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