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Popularly, China is a villain in climate change. Many people who attended last year's chaotic U.N. climate-change talks in Copenhagen - especially those who belonged to the U.S. delegation - singled out China as the main reason the summit nearly collapsed. Chinese diplomats fought hard against any form of emissions...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: When Goods Get Traded, Who Pays for the CO2? | 3/9/2010 | See Source »

While in theory a peace process might require that the protagonists make tough choices, the "proximity" process being initiated by the Obama Administration will, in fact, land the tough choices on the desk in the Oval Office. Four months or more from now, it will probably become clear that the...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Israelis and Palestinians: Agreeing to Talk, and to Fail | 3/8/2010 | See Source »

That imposing number just about covers Alice's $200 million budget; it's the most expensive new movie since Avatar, and Disney probably spent another $100 million or so to advertise it. The Burton picture is unlikely to come near the $2.5 billion global gross of James Cameron's epic...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Box Office Report: Alice's Wonderful Weekend | 3/7/2010 | See Source »

House Democrats are unlikely to agree to pass the Senate bill without some kind of ironclad guarantee that the Senate will actually follow through on its promise to make changes to its original measure. Among those: scaling back the so-called Cadillac tax on very expensive health care policies and...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Health Reform: Can the Democrats Cross the Finish Line? | 3/4/2010 | See Source »

Another prominent newspaper, The Independent wrote that "given the range of distinctly ropey state visitors she has greeted during her 58 years on the throne," the "distinctly monogamous" Queen Elizabeth was unlikely to be fazed by the visit. The character bashing continued with the Daily Telegraph, which reported that of...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: South Africa's Zuma vs. the Media in London | 3/4/2010 | See Source »

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