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...NEPSI project captures part of what motivates Tullman to work. "The opportunity to make a difference, to tackle a big problem, is what gets me excited," he says. But he isn't all high moral purpose. So there's another biggie: pleasure. In creating, succeeding, repeating. "You spend way too many hours doing it to not have fun doing what you do," he says. "And when you're having fun, it's not work...
...over, the verdict was in and the world was irrefutably warming. This year, for our seventh cover on the subject, we wanted to be more proactive, and so we posed a different question: What can scientists, lawmakers, corporations, communities and all the rest of us do to fix the problem? Our 44-page package, overseen by senior editor Jyoti Thottam, begins by looking at the big picture. Science editor Jeffrey Kluger, with reporting from the U.S., Asia and elsewhere, writes about what's going on in the labs, in the boardrooms, in Congress, state capitols and city halls, even...
Debt isn't necessarily a bad thing. But it does eventually have to be paid back or defaulted on. If the U.S. economy becomes more productive and consumers' incomes rise--as happened, to some extent, in the late 1990s--paying it back might not be a problem. But let's say wages stagnate--one possible consequence of globalization. The alternatives then are debt payments that will slash our standard of living or defaults that could bring a global financial crisis...
...problem is that the U.S. is like a ship with no anchor," says an Arab diplomat. "If it took a clear position, it could move people around that position. But because it doesn't, it is just getting pulled in many directions...
...recently told hundreds of pro-life Mexicans, who had just angrily marched through Mexico City protesting the abortion legalization proposal, that "the culture that proposes death for the unborn disguises its arguments... They say abortion is an issue of health and don't see that it's a fundamental problem for the life of the human race...