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Uncle Sam's Energy Lag In his story on how to solve the energy crisis, Jeffrey D. Sachs says President George W. Bush "dithered for eight years instead of investing in new technologies for a sustainable planet" [June 9]. This year alone, the Bush Administration will dedicate more than $5 billion to research, develop and promote technologies including low-emission coal, renewables, nuclear power and vehicles powered by advanced biofuels, electricity and hydrogen. More than $40 billion in loan guarantees will help put such technologies to use. The President's 2009 budget calls for nearly $1 billion in public...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Good-Faith Effort? | 6/18/2008 | See Source »

...There was never much doubt that planets other than the known nine (or the known eight, now that Pluto has been demoted) existed, but it wasn't until 1995 that the first of these so-called exoplanets was discovered. The vast distance between stars makes a comparatively small body like a planet invisible to even the sharpest-eyed telescopes. Instead, astronomers had to rely on a less-direct method, looking for tiny wobbles in the star itself. A star that couldn't stand still was almost certainly being tugged on by something, and that something was likely...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: More Planets Like Earth? | 6/17/2008 | See Source »

...center remains closed to visitors, and might not open again until next year. Six pandas have been sent to another reserve in Sichuan, and eight have been sent to Beijing for an Olympics stay at the Beijing Zoo that was planned before the quake...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Panda Habitat Ruined by China Quake | 6/17/2008 | See Source »

...Metzler is more hopeful about his apartment above Coral Lanes but doesn't think he'll be able to return to it for about a week. Being ordered to evacuate was like getting "smacked in the face," says Metzler, who had spent eight hours on Thursday sandbagging with friends, family and volunteers. "It was heartbreaking...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Iowa: After the Flooding, the Waiting | 6/16/2008 | See Source »

...Thorn, who lives along the rampaging Iowa River near a major dam in rural Iowa City, fears his home is destroyed. "I'm assuming it has at least eight feet of water," says Thorn, who voluntarily evacuated with his wife on June 7 when "water just started to lap at the door...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Iowa: After the Flooding, the Waiting | 6/16/2008 | See Source »

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