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Nevertheless, a few former members claim that the MEK is a cult, one that isolates adherents from their families, seeks to control them by limiting access to outside information, and prevents them from having sex. Indeed, there are no children at Camp Ashraf. The youngest residents are in their 20s, something MEK legal advisor Behzad Saffari says is because "military camps are not places for family life...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: An Anti-Iranian Enclave in Iraq Fights to Stay | 4/12/2009 | See Source »

...think I'll always be competitive. In fact, I feel like I'm more competitive now than I was in my 20s. I spoke to the national-team coach, and he was like, You're the fastest American there is, and you're less than a tenth of a second off the world record. You should swim. And I was like, Yeah, he's right. I haven't reached my peak...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: 10 Questions for Dara Torres | 4/9/2009 | See Source »

...asked that all the time. Here's the deal: if I were in my 20s, I'd be like, Oh yeah, no problem. But I'm almost 42. I had three orthopedic surgeries in the fall. My body breaks down much more than it would if I were in my 20s. But I haven't reached my peak. I'm not ruling it out, but I'm going to take...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: 10 Questions for Dara Torres | 4/9/2009 | See Source »

...since the '20s, when White Zombie came out, and in the 1960s, with the Romero movies, zombies have always been an easy metaphor for whatever ills society finds itself up against. They've been used to represent everything from rampant consumerism to the spread of communism. We live in an age when it's very easy to be afraid of everything that's going on in the world. There are these large groups of faceless people somewhere in the world, who mean to do us harm, and cannot be reasoned with. Zombies are sort of familiar territory...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Pride and Prejudice, Now with Zombies! | 4/2/2009 | See Source »

...minimized." That came three years after the U.S. stopped executing minors, following a Supreme Court decision, Roper v. Simmons, that was largely based on new brain research showing that the full development of the frontal lobe, where rational judgments are made, does not occur until the early- to mid-20s. At the state level, Missouri is leading the country by phasing out its large juvenile-detention institutions in favor of smaller facilities, closer to kids' homes, that offer more specialized services, like mental-health and drug counseling and education. In the process, the state claims to have reduced recidivism rates...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Getting the Juvenile-Justice System to Grow Up | 3/24/2009 | See Source »

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