Time Magazine: More than 2,700 delegates from 180 countries met in the German city for the talks, intended to set the stage for the main event: the U.N. summit in Copenhagen in December, where nations are expected to hammer out a successor to the expiring Kyoto Protocol. “If this were a marathon I think I’d say the runners were gathering their stamina for the final sprint,” de Boer told reporters on the closing day. (See the top 10 green ideas of 2008.) But while the deadline may be getting nearer …