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So far, he's right. There isn't much sugar in the Amazon. But my next stop was the Cerrado, south of the Amazon, an ecological jewel in its own right. The Amazon gets the ink, but the Cerrado is the world's most biodiverse savanna, with 10,000 species...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Clean Energy Scam | 3/27/2008 | See Source »

Members of Congress love biofuels too, not only because so many dream about future Iowa caucuses but also because so few want to offend the farm lobby, the most powerful force behind biofuels on Capitol Hill. Ethanol isn't about just Iowa or even the Midwest anymore. Plants are under...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Clean Energy Scam | 3/27/2008 | See Source »

From the start, the case turned conventional wisdom on its head. The Administration had argued that Jose Medellin, a Mexican national convicted of rape and murder in Texas but denied access to Mexican consular officials after his arrest, should get a retrial as ordered by the International Court of Justice...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: How Bush's Treaty Power Grab Failed | 3/27/2008 | See Source »

Back in 1969, the U.S. had joined the Vienna Convention on Consular Relations, part of which requires countries to give arrested foreigners access to consular officials, as in the movies when a pin-striped diplomat soothes a worried American in some Third World dungeon. The Administration renounced that part of...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: How Bush's Treaty Power Grab Failed | 3/27/2008 | See Source »

The Supreme Court had different ideas. In Tuesday's 6-3 decision, the justices rejected outright Bush's assertion that he could tell state courts what to do. But instead of issuing the final word themselves on whether Texas should retry Medellin, the justices said that was Congress's job...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: How Bush's Treaty Power Grab Failed | 3/27/2008 | See Source »

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