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...that sounds like hyperbole, consider this: just three years ago, when the two Representatives, pro-life Tim Ryan of Ohio and pro-choice Rosa DeLauro of Connecticut, introduced an earlier version of the legislation, they could persuade only one religious organization - and not a single abortion-rights group - to support them. Today leaders from Planned Parenthood and NARAL will be crowded elbow to elbow with Catholics and conservative Evangelicals to stand behind Ryan and DeLauro. It may not be an end to the culture war, but it looks a lot like a cease-fire. (Read "The Grass-Roots Abortion...
...moon, the U.N. Secretary-General, was subject to a bitter attack in Foreign Policy magazine recently for "frittering away influence" at a time when "global leadership is urgently needed." But Tim Wirth, president of the U.N. Foundation, argues that Ban's critics miss the point. The U.N., Wirth says, is not a vertical institution but a horizontal one, with 192 nation-states acting as shareholders. Ban can't tell the U.N.'s members--or even its agencies--what to do. He has to negotiate and coordinate, find a consensus. He manages to do that, Wirth says, by "keeping...
...Michael Jackson memorial tickets in an effort to combat scalpers. On the site on Monday night, the only items available under "Michael Jackson Memorial" were T shirts. Still, organizers admitted they couldn't completely stop the blatant profiteering. "For those who take advantage of this," promoter AEG's CEO Tim Leiweke said last week, "shame on you." (See pictures of Jackson's Neverland Ranch...
...over the past 25 years, the average Soay Island wild sheep has decreased in size, according to a report in the July 2 issue of Science by a team of researchers led by Tim Coulson of Imperial College London. Thanks largely to global warming, the winters on Soay Island are becoming shorter and milder. That makes food more abundant and allows some of the smaller, more vulnerable and younger sheep to survive. Then they go on to have offspring that tend to be small themselves - and have a better chance of survival because of the increasingly mild winters. "The environmental...
Earlier this week, treasury secretary Tim Geithner sat down with TIME managing editor Rick Stengel at an economic summit hosted by Time Warner in New York City to discuss the outlook for the economy and President Obama's overhaul of the financial regulatory system. Later, the Secretary answered additional questions about the new financial rules and regulations. Some excerpts...