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...arrogant to push forward with geoengineering processes that would result in alterations of climatic and marine systems [March 24]. Governments should agree to heavy regulation of any field experiments in their waters, and similar international controls should be put into place. Instead of seeking ways to mitigate the effect of greenhouse gases, policymakers should attack the problem head-on by regulating industry and reducing carbon dioxide emissions. The solution to global warming is to stop putting greenhouse gases into the atmosphere. Anything short of this is an imperfect and flawed approach that will ultimately fail. Alan Foreman, CAMBRIDGE, MASS...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Please Help Yourself | 4/2/2008 | See Source »

...McGregor launches himself into a jagged, off-center turn. The dancers copy the move and add it to the existing sequence, a jolting series of leaps and ricochets. The result looks raw, but when he doubles the dancers into pairs and counts them in at one-second intervals, the effect is galvanizing. Energy flickers from performer to performer like fork lightning...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Wayne McGregor: Mind in Motion | 4/2/2008 | See Source »

...Lost in the debate over how much regulation to impose is what if any effect the Treasury plan might have on the current crisis. The simple answer is none. The Treasury department says some modest short-term proposals in the plan can be implemented right away, but any of the larger reorganizing efforts, including the creation of the new regulatory bodies, are likely to take three to eight years to make it through Congress and into action...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Politics of Paulson's Proposal | 3/31/2008 | See Source »

...effect is to turn the entire 31-story exterior into a watery pixel field of color, blooms of orange, fuschia and reds near the base giving way to clouds of blue closer to the sky, with the occasional panel of yellow or red appearing wherever it may. At night a lighting system adds blue, yellow and white in varying combinations. Nouvel has called his building, which houses a local water company, "a fluid mass that bursts through the ground like a geyser under permanent, calculated pressure." That would be one way to look at it. As just about everyone...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Jean Nouvel Wins Architecture Honor | 3/30/2008 | See Source »

...records, that’s amazing to me. You can to go a country that they don’t know no English but they know hip-hop, you know what I mean? And they know my hip-hop, so it feels good to have that kind of effect on people...

Author: By Jessica L. Fleischer, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: 15 Questions with Raekwon of The Wu-Tang Clan | 3/30/2008 | See Source »

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