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After spending a couple of days there, along with TIME editor Rick Stengel and TIME.com managing editor Josh Tyrangiel, we found that you could not throw a rock in Detroit without hitting a good story. In this issue, you'll read Daniel Okrent's insightful analysis of how Detroit got off track and how the hardy souls who remain are fighting for the city's future. Steven Gray profiled one of those fighters: Bing, the NBA Hall of Famer and steel entrepreneur thrust into an office once rife with corruption. Future issues of TIME will feature stories about Detroit...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Assignment Detroit: Why Time Inc. Is in Motown | 9/24/2009 | See Source »

...nine planetary boundaries that Rockstrom identifies in the paper. Other boundaries involve freshwater overuse, the global agricultural cycle and ozone loss. In each case, he scans the state of science to find ecological limits that we can't violate, lest we risk passing a tipping point that could throw the planet out of whack for human beings. It's based on a theory that ecological change occurs not so much cumulatively, but suddenly, after invisible thresholds have been reached. Stay within the lines, and we might just be all right...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: How Much Human Activity Can Earth Handle? | 9/23/2009 | See Source »

...will think), spurring the Harvard troops to victory. And as it does with homework or talking to HUPD, alcohol just makes the games more fun. A dilemma is presented by the question of where this pregame should take place. Traditional pregame activities such as grilling absurd quantities of meat, throwing a football, or playing cornhole (a game similar in concept to horseshoes but played instead with bean bags and two large target boxes with holes. I am not making this up.) are outdoor events that make up what is better known as a tailgate. For Harvard games though...

Author: By Ryan D. Smith, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Friday Night Lights | 9/23/2009 | See Source »

...made to replace him.The University urgently needed a competent individual to fill the vacancies—and Gorodentsev, with her broad administrative scope and interpersonal strengths, fit the bill, according to King.“She’s a utility player. She can do almost anything you throw at her,” King said. “The number of people who could just jump into a job like that and hit the ground running is really small.”Smith declined to comment on whether Gorodentsev is under consideration for a permanent position as dean...

Author: By Bonnie J. Kavoussi and Esther I. Yi, CRIMSON STAFF WRITERS | Title: Interim FAS Dean Assumes Host of Duties | 9/23/2009 | See Source »

...other side really unleashed about everything they had, but you see, they weren't used to being taken on by the big guys or in ways they'd never seen before. They're used to meat-and-potatoes lobbying: put the ads on, get the think tanks going, throw more money in the PACs. Very traditional...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Ralph Nader, Fiction Writer | 9/23/2009 | See Source »

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