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...Germans were gobsmacked. Who was this young upstart? Karl-Theodor Freiherr von und zu Guttenberg is a baron, the son of an aristocratic family in Franconia, in southern Germany. His family can trace its tree all the way back to the 12th century. Zu Guttenberg studied political science and law before entering politics and is married to 32 year-old Stephanie, the Countess of Bismarck-Schönhausen, a descendant of the "Iron Chancellor" Otto von Bismarck. (Read a TIME story on Otto von Bismarck...
...Obama this week urged the world's top economies to adopt aggressive, America-sized spending programs. "It's very important to make sure that other countries are moving in the same direction, because the global economy is all tied together," he said. (See pictures of Barack Obama's family tree...
...best of days, Washington and Wall Street are as antsy as a boy who plants an acorn and then starts talking about climbing the tree. And these are not the best of days. Under the stress of a global financial disaster and juiced up on the amphetamine of 24-hour cable chatter, America's axis of money and influence is jittery and nervous and primed for panic...
...processed into a biofuel catching on in entrepreneurial green pockets of the world from Florida to Brazil to India, which has already earmarked 100 million acres for the plant and expects the oil to account for one-fifth its diesel consumption by 2011. (Watch TIME's video about biofuel tree farmers in action...
...Puzzlingly, however, the junta's planting directive has not been matched by adequate infrastructure to turn those acres into energy, like collection mechanisms, processing plants, distribution systems. My friend dutifully tends his jatropha trees and then watches the seeds fall on the ground and die. In his case, the spindly physic-nut shrubs in his garden are supplanting a fragrant frangipani tree or colorful hibiscus bush. But elsewhere in Burma - a nation where UNICEF estimates malnutrition afflicts one-third of children - farmers have had to put aside valuable crop land for a wasted plant...