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...Little wonder that in the aftermath of a record contraction in U.S. consumer spending in late 2008 - 4% average annualized declines in the final two quarters of the year in real terms - every major economy in Asia either slowed sharply or tumbled into deep recession. More than ever, the region's fate remains made in America...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Kidding Ourselves About an Asian Recovery | 6/8/2009 | See Source »

...rise to that level of drama. It's more a persistent, slow-burning question: What are we going to do with all this ... stuff? Over the past decade, schools like Princeton, NYU, Cornell, Harvard and Ohio State have each instituted some sort of program to collect unwanted items and either donate them to charity or sell them at the beginning of the following term...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Dumpster Diving: Colleges Get Smart on Salvage | 6/7/2009 | See Source »

...Verona as annoying as the smug yupsters in those New York Times commercials? It could be the movie they're in, a bloated, criminally judgmental borderline-comedy about Burt and Verona and the friends they are loftily superior to. Virtually every supporting character in Away We Go is either a repellent caricature deserving contempt or a crippled thing cadging for our sympathy. To director Sam Mendes, they're nothing but point-provers, put on display to show the deviant behavior our two winsome leads, or any sentient member of the audience, would instantly reject. (Watch TIME's Video: 10 Questions...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Away We Go: We're OK, You're All Idiots | 6/6/2009 | See Source »

...also true that land intervention in Somalia would be immeasurably bloodier than the sea operations underway, and the ineffectiveness of peacekeepers in Darfur, and the DRC raises big questions over whether such operations can ever be successful. It is widely acknowledged that finding a lasting fix to either piracy or the humanitarian crisis would require fixing Somalia, and that, as President Sheikh Sharif Sharif Ahmed told the Guardian newspaper last month, "is the hardest job in the world...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Somalia's Crisis: Not Piracy, but Its People's Plight | 6/5/2009 | See Source »

...models that "could result in loss of one source of critical altitude and airspeed data and reduce the ability of the flight crew to control the airplane." Dubon says these issues are "totally unrelated ... Our safety people have informed me that is not relevant to either the Qantas case or the Air France case...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Could a Computer Glitch Have Brought Down Air France 447? | 6/5/2009 | See Source »

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