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...first in Indonesia to win Green Globe certification, denoting compliance with principles endorsed at the 1992 U.N. Rio Earth Summit. Only local materials are used. The planting of indigenous vegetation like sweet lemongrass for landscaping keeps water consumption down, as does the deployment of rain gardens to collect precipitation. Cabanas are made with old telephone poles and railroad ties, while volcanic rocks used in villa construction absorb heat from the sun and keep interiors cool, minimizing the need for air-conditioning...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Upon the Fields of Bali | 1/28/2010 | See Source »

...weeks of benefits, with the possibility of a 13-week extension. Following extensions passed under Presidents George W. Bush and Barack Obama, jobless benefits can now run as long as 99 weeks - nearly two years. During the 1982-83 recession, the longest time a person could collect benefits was about 55 weeks.(See how Americans are spending...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Limit to Compassion | 1/25/2010 | See Source »

According to UHS Director David S. Rosenthal ’59, the UHS pharmacy was able to collect a large amount of medicine that would have been otherwise outdated in three or four weeks...

Author: By Tara W. Merrigan, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Harvard Relief Team Returns From Haiti | 1/25/2010 | See Source »

...included separately on the Census instead of being confined to broad categories (black for people of Afro-Caribbean decent; white for those with Arab ancestry). By trying out additional write-in blanks, the Census is attempting to see what other designations it might be able to reliably collect data about...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Should the Census Be Asking People if They Are Negro? | 1/23/2010 | See Source »

...gather his data, Siler used a software system called PokerTracker and directed it to collect and collate information on small- medium- and large-stakes games. He limited the games to no-limit Texas Hold 'Em with six players in order to eliminate at least some extraneous variables. It was in the course of crunching all that information that he found the strangely inverse relationship between the number of hands won and the amount of money lost. He also noticed that it was novice players who lost the most...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: How Winning Can Mean Losing in Poker and Life | 1/13/2010 | See Source »

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