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...years. The soldier has been a toy, a comic book, a cartoon, another toy and several videogames. But on Aug. 7, G.I. Joe gets his most challenging mission yet: anchoring his own live-action film. G.I. Joe: The Rise of Cobra hopes it can emulate Transformers and turn nostalgia for the 1980s toys and cartoons into success at the box office. (See pictures of ninja warriors: from myth to movies...
...eying the bigger profits that come from selling the cars abroad. "The problem is that there is no supervision of the companies to ensure that they actually scrap the cars," says Frank Wolff, director of the environmental-crime division of the Hamburg police. "These firms are supposed to turn the cars into scrap, but instead, some are selling them to buyers in Africa." (Read "Cash for Clunkers: How Big an Environmental Boost...
...health-care reform - which would also rank as Rangel's crowning legislative achievement. It hasn't worked out that way, at least not yet. Deeply split along party lines, the Ways and Means panel has become a target for critics who say Obama has allowed congressional Democrats to turn health-care reform into a partisan enterprise that will raise taxes on the rich without controlling costs or solving many of the health-care system's biggest problems. And it is the committee's chairman, the 20-term Congressman from Harlem, N.Y., who is taking the most heat. (Watch TIME...
...further 200 new reactors between now and 2050. At around $7 billion a pop, the payday for the biggest players - Areva, Russia's Rosatom, Toshiba-owned Westinghouse, Mitsubishi Nuclear Energy Systems and a joint venture between General Electric and Hitachi - promises to be huge as countries around the world turn to alternatives to coal and oil to meet rising demand for clean electricity. A reactor currently under construction in Tennessee is the first of at least a dozen nuclear plants planned in the U.S. over the next decade or so. Italy has just reversed a 22 year-old freeze...
...right country, in general, and people live their lives conservatively - you want to keep the money you earn, you want to provide for your family. I think everything going on right now with the Obama Administration and the policies they're enacting are going to cause young people to turn to an alternative, and I think that alternative is going to be conservatism. (Read "Obama's Legislative Approach: Pragmatism...