Saturday, October 4, 2008

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Today's Top Stories

Palin's Pipeline to Nowhere?

By MICHAEL WEISSKOPF AND NATHAN THORNBURGH/ANCHORAGE

Sarah Palin vowed to take on Big Oil when she set out to build a gas pipeline in Alaska. But her uncompromising style has its costs

The Credit Crunch Comes to Main Street

By BARBARA KIVIAT

Paydays are safe — for now — but small businesses are hurting

Is South Africa's Ruling Party About to Split?

By ALEX PERRY

An angry exchange of public denunciations between top leaders of the ANC suggests that some Mbeki loyalists may be planning to quit the party

Playing the Jock Market

By SEAN GREGORY

A new website lets you invest real money in virtual shares of real sports superstars. Is this new game worth your time, and money?

Nerd World Book Club: Anathem, Parts 6-10

By LEV GROSSMAN

I have entered a stage familiar to me from other Stephenson books, a state of deep immersion where I carry the thing around all the time and read it while walking, talking on the phone, operating heavy machinery, etc., and can't think about anything else.

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Swampland

By Amy Sullivan

Even women who found her personally likeable and confident complained that she seemed "coached" and stuck so closely to "talking points and sound bytes" that they weren't sure what kind of vice-president she would be

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Great Depression 2.0: Tracing the Meltdown

The housing bubble burst. Wall Street collapsed. Now the aftershocks are radiating throughout Main Street. TIME explores how this initially insular financial crisis went national.

Quotes of the Day

"This war will continue until we make Pakistan terrorism-free."
REHMAN MALIK,
Pakistan's Interior Ministry chief, on the country's fight against terrorists within
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Postcard from...

King Abdullah Economic City

A New City in the Saudi Desert

By Bobby Ghosh

Needing jobs and housing for its next generation, the desert kingdom has launched an ambitious plan to build five new cities simultaneously

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