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Washington is engaged in a giant game of chicken with the Big Three automakers, and unless someone swerves soon, Detroit is going to end up as wreckage on the side of the road...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Big Three Bailout Hits Some Speed Bumps in Washington | 12/4/2008 | See Source »

...waiting until next year. Matthew Simmons, who heads Simmons & Co., an investment-banking firm focused on energy companies, says he has been surprised at how fast firms have begun to cut exploration. He has already heard of a number of drilling projects that have been put on hold. "Unless prices rebound fast, energy companies are going to spend less next year," says Simmons...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Oil-Price Drop Forces Big Energy to Retreat | 12/3/2008 | See Source »

...says. "But there is incredible excitement and enthusiasm for the change he wants to bring to this country right now and that translates into a desire among voters here to elect someone who will work with the new President and work across the aisle to move his agenda forward." Unless, of course, Georgians decide that they don't want the next President to have that easy a ride in Congress...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Georgia's Senate Runoff: Where's Obama? | 12/2/2008 | See Source »

...rebuild war-torn cities but in the form of ideas to rebuild violence-torn minds. We have no alternative. In my yard there are stubborn patches of crabgrass. It's tempting to take a weed whacker and chop them down, but the crabgrass comes back twice as strong unless you get at its roots...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: How to Prevent Another Mumbai | 12/2/2008 | See Source »

Trethewey's advice is simple: Plug up those holes. "If you see light coming through from outside, that means heat is leaving the building," he says. Windows can be particularly tricky: It's easy to forget to lock your windows (unless you live in my New York City neighborhood), but unlocked windows, even when shut, can bleed heat on a cold day. "You might walk by that window outside and think it's nothing, but if you took that thin crack and turned it into a circle, you'd have a hole as big as a nickel or dime," says...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Weatherproof Your Home | 12/1/2008 | See Source »

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