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...Wall Street, Oliver Stone’s classic film about bankers gone wild in the go-go 1980s, the protagonist, Bud Fox, is faced with a similar predicament. After his son’s finance career has gone up in flames, Bud’s father Carl counsels, “It’s gonna be rough on you but maybe in some screwed up way, that’s the best thing that can happen to you. Stop trading for the quick buck and go produce something with your life, create, don’t live...

Author: By Daniel E. Herz-roiphe | Title: Now What? | 9/26/2008 | See Source »

...climate change have already pushed countless species out of existence. Of the surviving 71 lemur species and subspecies on Madagascar, 63% are endangered. "Madagascar is the hottest of hotspots," says Russell Mittermeier, the president of Conservation International (CI) and a renowned primatologist. If we care about saving our wild cousins from extinction, Madagascar is the place to start...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Saving the Wildlife of Madagascar | 9/25/2008 | See Source »

...symmetrical disasters. His presidency began with the destruction of the Twin Towers by al-Qaeda terrorists. It is ending with the devastation of the Twin Trillions - the money spent on a foolish war in Iraq ($653 billion and counting) and on the bailout of a financial industry gone hog wild during the Reagan-initiated Era of Deregulation. Bush has revived Big Government in the worst possible way: the middle class will pay, in perpetuity, for the sins of the powerful...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Return of the Age of Activism | 9/25/2008 | See Source »

...wild man image, as you put it, of the Saracen with the sword in one hand and the Koran in the other...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Q&A: Bernard Lewis on Islam's Crisis | 9/20/2008 | See Source »

...getting interestingly cheap" but analysts "certainly do not pretend to have any real clarity on the near-term market outlook." The investment bank said "for now, most investors in Asia will continue to focus more on cutting risk and hedging positions rather than putting on substantial new risk." The wild ride in Asian markets isn't over...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Asia Stocks Roar Back | 9/19/2008 | See Source »

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