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...Avatar's influence may depend on whether its fans can turn away from it, take off the tinted glasses and take a look at the real world...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Green Groups to Cameron: Be King of the Environment! | 3/7/2010 | See Source »

...opposition, this presents a great opportunity. Opposition leaders flew down from Moscow to have their turn at the podium during the late-January protest. Alongside local activists, they called not only for lower taxes, more jobs and a new governor but for an end to Putin's reign. Nemtsov was the most prominent figure to speak. A popular governor of Nizhny Novgorod in the 1990s and a Deputy Prime Minister under President Boris Yeltsin, he took the stage in a bomber jacket and jeans. "Moscow is sucking the money from the regions as if they were its colonies," he said...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Anti-Putin Movement Gains Confidence in Russia | 3/7/2010 | See Source »

...Russia by far, as well as the most powerful. But even the mainstream opposition sees an opening. Take the Yabloko Party. It had led the pro-Western forces in parliament throughout the 1990s before being voted out in 2007 in an election it says was rigged. Kaliningrad has helped turn its focus to the streets. "The outlying regions are in a better mood for protests," its leader, Sergei Mitrokhin, tells TIME. "Kaliningrad shed light on all the vices of the current regime and its economic policies, and it has led us to activate our regional branches. We have been carrying...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Anti-Putin Movement Gains Confidence in Russia | 3/7/2010 | See Source »

...could they just pick up their lives and get on with the rest of us? Back in World War II, we viewed the Japanese as 'yellow, slant-eyed dogs' that believed in different gods. They were out to kill us because our way of living was different. We, in turn, wanted to annihilate them because they were different. Does that sound familiar, by any chance, to what's going on today...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: How Tom Hanks Became America's Historian in Chief | 3/6/2010 | See Source »

...Economics of Ecosystems and Diversity (TEEB), says that currently "the economic value attached to nature is zero. Our metrics are geared toward consumption and production of man-made goods and services, and we tend to gloss over nature." This, he says, has led to "bad accounting" which, in turn, has contributed to rapid biodiversity loss...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Should We Put A Dollar Value On Nature? | 3/6/2010 | See Source »

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