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Predicting how fast a person will be jogging two years hence is tricky, especially when that person is currently flat on his back in a hospital's intensive-care unit...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Economic Forecasting: A Foggier View Than Ever | 9/29/2009 | See Source »

...Turner to reconsider their final play call. But in the muggle world, the Bears will have to live with their decision: down by only three points with under five seconds remaining and poised on the Harvard 25-yard line, Brown coach Phil Estes elected to keep his field goal unit on the sideline and take one last shot at the endzone...

Author: By Martin Kessler, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Lights Out | 9/28/2009 | See Source »

...Turner to reconsider their final play call. But in the muggle world, the Bears will have to live with their decision: down by only three points with under five seconds remaining and poised on the Harvard 25-yard line, Brown coach Phil Estes elected to keep his field goal unit on the sideline and take one last shot at the end zone. Brown quarterback Kyle Newhall took the snap out of the shotgun formation and lofted the ball for wide receiver Bobby Sewall in the right side of the end zone...

Author: By Martin Kessler | Title: Lights Out | 9/26/2009 | See Source »

...Jintao told the U.N. that by 2020 China would increase the share of renewable and nuclear power in its energy supply to 15%, plant 40 million hectares of forest, increase investment in a greener economy and reduce its carbon intensity - the amount of economic value it gets per unit of power - by a "notable margin." Many of those domestic goals had already been announced, but the tone of Hu's speech made an impact on his audience. "I think China has provided impressive leadership," said Al Gore after Hu's talk. (See pictures of Beijing's attempt to clean...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Is China Now the Climate Change Good Guy? | 9/24/2009 | See Source »

...General Assembly in New York City, Hu made a widely anticipated speech on climate change, finely calibrated for diplomatic effect. He was nothing if not cautious, saying - accurately - that China was in the process of increasing its energy efficiency, reducing the amount of energy required to produce a unit of GDP. Indeed, China's energy efficiency has improved in each of the past two years, a trend likely to continue, because a huge surge in investment in energy-intensive industries like steel and cement in the early part of this decade has run its course. New housing developments all over...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Has China Really Gotten Serious About Climate Change? | 9/24/2009 | See Source »

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