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Even in its revamped form, the IMF will be less of a significant player on the world stage than its founders intended at the Bretton Woods conference in 1944. Back then, the resources allocated to the IMF amounted to more than half of the world's current account payments. Today...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: International Monetary Fund 2.0 | 4/20/2009 | See Source »

This spring, for example, Texas lawmakers are mulling a new law that would allow college students to carry firearms to campus (Utah already makes this legal). "I think people weren't concerned about it first," says University of Texas graduate student John Woods, who has emerged as a spokesman for...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Ten Years After Columbine, It's Easier to Bear Arms | 4/20/2009 | See Source »

But efforts like Woods' are up against powerful headwinds - and not just because of the powerful gun lobby that often strangles gun-control laws. Americans in general have cooled significantly to the idea of restricting gun rights. A poll released last week by CNN showed that support for stricter gun...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Ten Years After Columbine, It's Easier to Bear Arms | 4/20/2009 | See Source »

Woods concedes that getting help to the psychotic, would-be killers of the world would probably be an even better fix. But he has a personal reason to take the issues seriously. Two years ago, he was in his apartment in Blacksburg, Virginia, listening to sirens sounding across the campus...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Ten Years After Columbine, It's Easier to Bear Arms | 4/20/2009 | See Source »

Going all-in? Not likely, if you gamble online. A recent study conducted by the Harvard Medical School Division on Addictions suggests that the widespread availability of Internet gambling has not led to an increase in the number of people addicted to gambling. The study actually found that gamblers who...

Author: By Laura M. Fontanills, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Smaller Risk of Addiction in Web Gambling | 4/19/2009 | See Source »

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