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...cold, dead place, with an average temperature as low as -0.4°F. Unfortunately, by adding CO2 and other greenhouse gases to the atmosphere, we have, in a sense, thrown another quilt on the planet when we were perfectly comfortable to begin with. (Watch TIME's video "The Truth About Solar Power...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Can Geoengineering Help Slow Global Warming? | 8/18/2009 | See Source »

...most murders don't happen in the precincts of the rational or the just. They happen on the late-night mean streets, where truth is often a figment, and memory is as slippery as the greasy pavement...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Davis Ruling Raises New Death-Penalty Questions | 8/18/2009 | See Source »

...that the world's most populous continent would give birth to a movement called People Power. In 1986, a housewife from the Philippines whose given name meant "heart" gave lifeblood to her wounded nation. The only weapon she possessed was moral courage. But with it she discovered a groundbreaking truth: that a populace holding nothing more than candles and rosary beads could face a cavalcade of tanks, topple a dictator and, most improbable of all, usher in democracy...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Corazon Aquino 1933-2009: The Saint of Democracy | 8/17/2009 | See Source »

...need to be fully impartial. You need to always speak truth to power. Because what he or she does here in many cases makes the difference between war and peace...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: 10 Questions for Mohamed ElBaradei | 8/17/2009 | See Source »

...arid region caught in a cycle of convulsive agricultural booms and busts driven by massive irrigation projects and abetted by copious supplies of undocumented immigrant labor. A combination history book, documentary, autobiography and topographical survey, Imperial is Vollmann's obsessive, strangely engrossing attempt to articulate the whole twisted truth of this scrap of cursed earth, where every square foot is soaked in blood and money and despair. It doesn't come easily. "This is a secret, secret place," an Imperial resident tells Vollmann. "In a way, it's like the Nam. Just like the old guys don't make friends...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Skimmer | 8/17/2009 | See Source »

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