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...under the Mississippi River at Hastings, Minn.--a town willing to give a new idea a try. "Everybody likes a science experiment, and this is just a big science experiment," says Tom Montgomery, Hastings' public-works director. The barge-mounted turbines will be unconventional, but Krouse's design yields twice the energy of earlier versions--and doesn't require new dams, which take years to license...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: River Power Rises | 10/29/2006 | See Source »

...experiment, college students were given the option of studying or attending a lecture by an author they admired. Only 21% opted to study. Yet when a third option--watching a movie--was thrown in, 40% chose studying. The need to pick between two fun outings made students twice as likely to have...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Change Agents: Are You Sticky? | 10/29/2006 | See Source »

...fast food), concrete (weight loss by eating fast-food subs), credible (his own account of weight loss by eating fast-food subs), emotional (his own triumphant account of weight loss by eating fast-food subs)--and a story (his own triumphant account of weight loss by walking to Subway twice a day and eating fast-food subs...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Change Agents: Are You Sticky? | 10/29/2006 | See Source »

...work on pollution. I live on the southern tip of Hong Kong island overseeing the South China Sea. But in recent years, my house's windows oversee smog rather than the nearby outlying islands of Hong Kong. In September, my 4-year-old son suffered from respiratory infection twice and was prevented from going to school. The poor air condition in Hong Kong has reached an alarming level. Fredrick Yip Chi Wing Hong Kong...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters | 10/28/2006 | See Source »

...Early on he said the U.S. was an "antibody" in the Iraqi body politic and supported early "off-ramps" from Iraq for our forces. Officers who served in Iraq say they asked for more forces several times, but those requests did not make it to the top. At least twice in meetings with President Bush in 2004 - once before the April 2004 Fallujah attack and again before another operation there in November - the President asked Abizaid if he had everything he needed and Abizaid said...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Criticism Mounts of U.S. Generals in Iraq | 10/27/2006 | See Source »

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