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...need for complex infrastructure, feed or veterinary care, it costs 20-30% less than beef. Kangaroos also do less damage to Australian soil than millions of hard-hoofed cows and sheep. And unlike ruminants, which produce gases that contribute 11% of Australia's greenhouse-gas emissions, kangaroos are naturally low greenhouse-gas emitters. The industry got a boost last fall when Ross Garnaut, Prime Minister Kevin Rudd's top climate-change adviser, issued a global-warming report urging Australians to chuck their beef and lamb and throw more roo on the barbie...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Kangaroo: It's What's For Dinner | 4/30/2009 | See Source »

...fundamental power shift taking place globally. Once untouchable telcos and their suppliers, including Nippon Telegraph & Telephone Corp., Deutsche Telekom and France Telecom, have become mastodons stuck in a tar pit. They are surrounded by a host of new technologies and hungry cable companies, wireless operators and handset providers with low-cost solutions and must-have apps. These competitors and their supply chains are smarter, faster, more aggressive. And they're gobbling up business in the $1.7 trillion global market for telecom services, including traditional fixed lines, at a ferocious rate...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nortel's Nadir | 4/30/2009 | See Source »

...customer base and bottom line may turn out to be for the telecom industry what the automobile was to the horse. Skype co-founder Niklas Zennstrom predicts that in less than a decade, telcos and cablecos will be on the bottom of the telecom food chain, faceless operators of low-value pipes delivering high-value content to smart mobile devices. Don't say you haven't been warned...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nortel's Nadir | 4/30/2009 | See Source »

...good news is, it was nothing more than an inconsiderate, badly conceived and insensitive photo op with the taxpayers' money.' New York City Mayor MICHAEL BLOOMBERG, after one of President Obama's Air Force One planes--escorted by two fighter jets--caused panic in downtown New York during a low-flying photo shoot...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Verbatim | 4/30/2009 | See Source »

...willing to reduce balances, plus $250 a year for borrowers who make payments on time. In response to complaints that the initial plan did not provide enough help to homeowners underwater on "piggyback" second mortgages, the new initiative would also cut interest rates for some borrowers to as low as 1% for five years...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The World | 4/30/2009 | See Source »

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