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...warnings, echoed by prominent economists, were heeded. At the London summit, the rich nations, wrangled by U.S. Treasury Secretary Tim Geithner, decided to triple the IMF's resources to $750 billion. After nearly a decade on the sidelines, it was suddenly a player again. "The IMF is back," crowed IMF managing director Dominique Strauss-Kahn. Boutros-Ghali is more cautious: "Now we need to make sure the money shows up, that it wasn't just pious words." (See pictures of the global financial crisis...
...There has been heated debate over Germany's gun laws ever since a school shooting in the southern town of Winnenden on March 11, when 17-year-old Tim Kretschmar went on a rampage, killing 15 people before turning the gun on himself. After much wrangling between the conservative CDU and the Social Democratic Party (SPD) in Chancellor Angela Merkel's coalition government, the parties have finally agreed on a number of measures aimed at tightening Germany's gun controls, which are already quite strict compared with other European countries. (Read about Merkel in the TIME...
...criminal complaint, Pitino acknowledges "an encounter" with Sypher in 2003. Sometime after that, Tim Sypher, the team's equipment manager, met Karen, and they were married. In late February 2009, Pitino told the FBI, he received two voice mails on his personal cell phone from an unidentified man who characterized the interaction between Pitino and an unnamed woman as criminal. The caller later threatened to notify the media. Pitino said he then met with Sypher and her husband and asked what she wanted. Karen Sypher wrote out a list of demands, he said, including college tuition for her children...
...complaint at the time. While the government contends they are irrelevant to the extortion case, Clay told TIME he will fight to include them if the case goes to trial. "There's a very compelling legal reason" for that, he said, "which I'm not at liberty to disclose." Tim Sypher has backed Pitino and criticized his estranged wife, who has filed for divorce. "I think Mr. Sypher is in a very delicate and precarious position," Clay said...
...Princeton scholar Tim Searchinger, who helped launch a global rethinking of biofuels in 2007 by calling attention to their effects on land use, warns that the EPA assumptions are extremely optimistic - and that if they're wrong the consequences could be extremely dire. "It takes a lot of land to make a small amount of energy," Searchinger says. "Academic studies have concluded that if the world gets even 10% of its energy from these new kinds of crops, most tropical forests will probably disappear." (Read "The Clean Energy Scam...