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...a??homeownership plan the government will be keen to promote. Two illegal immigrants from El Salvador took possession last week of a 70-acre Arizona ranch as part of a civil judgment against a vigilante leader who allegedly threatened them with a gun when he caught them sneaking into the U.S. in March 2003. The immigrants said the ordeal left them with posttraumatic stress, a condition that seems to be spreading fast on the Mexico-U.S. boundary. To wit: Arizona Governor Janet Napolitano declared a state of emergency last week because, she said, "the Federal Government has failed...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Bickering About the Border | 8/22/2005 | See Source »

...what experts say is a??welcome nod to common sense, the CIA, having spent billions over the years on undercover agents, phone taps and the like, plans to create a large wing in the spookhouse dedicated to sorting through various forms of data that are not secret--such as research articles, religious tracts, websites, even phone books--but yet could be vital to national security. Senior intelligence officials tell TIME that CIA Director Porter Goss plans to launch by Oct. 1 an "open source" unit that will greatly expand on the work of the respected but cash-strapped office that...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Opening Up the CIA | 8/7/2005 | See Source »

Sometime in the late fall, unless a??federal court intervenes, ninth-graders at the public high school in rural Dover, Pa., will witness an unusual scene in biology class. The superintendent of schools, Richard Nilsen, will enter the classroom to read a three-paragraph statement mandated by the local school board as a cautionary preamble to the study of evolution. It reads, in part...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Evolution Wars | 8/7/2005 | See Source »

China's transition from a??Communist dictatorship to a free, capitalist democracy is inevitable. You can't give an oppressed people like the Chinese a taste of the free market without expecting them to rise up against their rulers...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Jul. 18, 2005 | 7/10/2005 | See Source »

...you have a??cat, you probably suspect it wants two things: infinite luxury and you gone. In this SpongeBobian romp, a feline trio inherit a fortune from their late owner and indulge their fantasies. In various episodes, megalomaniac Mr. Blik travels to the moon in search of an ingredient for a barbecue recipe, sweethearted Gordon tries to find a unicorn, and ditzy Waffle hunts the world's most wicked mouse. You'll laugh till you cough up a fur ball...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Television: 6 Smart Kids-TV Shows | 6/26/2005 | See Source »

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