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Last year, Americans forfeited an average of 3 paid vacation days—415 million days total—a 50% increase over 2003. By Clara Jeffery

Increasingly, drug companies aren't just selling cures. They're also marketing disease. By Bradford Plumer

Glaciers are melting, the weather's becoming weirder, and animals are getting antsy. You don't have to look far for evidence that the earth's climate is changing before our very eyes. Here, a sampling of global warming's greatest hits. By Max Seabaugh

The new Pentagon can peruse intelligence on U.S.citizens and send Marines down Main Street. By Peter Byrne

If the U.S. government doesn't plan to occupy Iraq for any longer than necessary, why is it spending billions of dollars to build "enduring" bases? By Joshua Hammer

Experts say we're about to run out of oil. But we're nowhere near having another technology ready to take its place. By Paul Roberts

After all the post-9/11 talk about Americans pulling together, why does it feel as though we're moving farther apart? By Bill McKibben

With no help from the Bush administration -- but plenty from Europe, Japan, New York, and California -- solar power is edging into the mainstream. By Bill McKibben

"In wartime," declared Winston Churchill, "the truth is so precious that she should always be attended by a bodyguard of lies."