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...encourage exploration for future drilling sites along the Eastern seaboard and northern Alaska. (The Pacific Ocean and Bristol Bay are off-limits.) Obama called the drilling leases, the first of their kind in two decades, a "balance" between the country's future oil needs and a desire to protect its natural resources. The proposal was largely seen as an effort to court GOP support for an upcoming climate-change bill...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The World | 4/12/2010 | See Source »

...regularly does outreach with colleges to help protect the rights of students. But what about older interns, many of whom graduated years ago? "That's not the typical scenario that's been on our radar screen," says Nancy Leppink, the DOL's wage and hour deputy administrator. "The fact of the matter is, the legal requirements aren't any different...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Working for Free: The Boom in Adult Interns | 4/12/2010 | See Source »

Federal regulations that dictate which organizations can and cannot offer unpaid work do little to protect students from labor exploitation and much to deny them opportunity. Currently, an internship must meet six criteria to be legally unpaid. While most of these criteria are sensible enough, one that should be repealed is the stipulation that an internship must offer experience replicable at a vocational school or an academic institution, thus precluding a large number of industries from offering unpaid internships and limiting opportunities for jobseekers. Another worthy of repeal mandates that the employer cannot profit from intern labor. The latter criterion...

Author: By Karthik R. Kasaraneni and Dhruv K. Singhal | Title: Defending Indentured Servitude | 4/9/2010 | See Source »

...working with China in a way that can protect our interests is less about direct confrontation of the sort we remember from the Cold War - when the U.S. knew it faced a very dangerous enemy - and more about what we might call co-evolution. The phrase comes from biology and describes how some species work together to become stronger over time. A textbook example is the hummingbird and certain flowers, which, scientists have found, have evolved together to serve each other's mutual needs. Think of the long beaks on the birds and the narrow funnels on the flowers...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Hu's Visit: Finding a Way Forward on U.S.-China Relations | 4/8/2010 | See Source »

...global scale - though that could be a tragedy almost as great as any war. China is not sure we're capable of this sort of transcendence. So with the patience of thousands of years of history and the urgency of a rising power, it is gathering the tools to protect itself...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Hu's Visit: Finding a Way Forward on U.S.-China Relations | 4/8/2010 | See Source »

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