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...prevent illness at any age...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Side Effects of 1918 Flu Seen Decades Later | 10/12/2009 | See Source »

News reports continue to describe Polanski's crime as "unlawful sex with a 13-year-old." But it wasn't just her age that made it unlawful. It was the fact that the sex was unwanted, that she repeatedly said no throughout the assault, that she had been drugged. Polanski isn't being hounded for behavior--like homosexuality--once thought to be deviant but now generally accepted as mainstream. In 2009, just as in the 1970s, it is considered a bad thing to rape a child and run from the law. And so will it be 30 years from...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Moment | 10/12/2009 | See Source »

...without nuclear weapons engaged in two global wars resulting in the deaths of an estimated 78 million to 95 million people, uniformed and civilian. The world wars were the hideous expression of what happens when the human tendency toward conflict hooks up with the violent possibilities of the industrial age. The version of this story we are most familiar with is the Nazi death machinery, and we are often tempted to think that if Hitler had not happened, we would never have encountered assembly-line murder. (See TIME's photo-essay "Fun with Photoshop: Obama's Other Awards...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Want Peace? Give a Nuke the Nobel | 10/11/2009 | See Source »

...Rwanda between Hutu and Tutsi all offer bloody proof. Is it the U.N.? Um, no. Is it globalism and the web of commerce that increasingly connects the interests of the major powers? Yes, that certainly has an impact. But the global economy is a creation of the nuclear age. Major powers find ways to get along because the cost of armed conflict between them has become unthinkably high...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Want Peace? Give a Nuke the Nobel | 10/11/2009 | See Source »

...factor, say Arias' critics, is that the 69-year-old leader is part of Costa Rica's pre-environmental generation - from a time, before the 1980s, when Costa Rica actually had one of the world's highest deforestation rates. Today's greener Tico cohort came of age after Arias' first presidency in the 1980s, when he won the Nobel Peace Prize for helping to end Central America's bloody civil wars. "Mr. Arias has definitely remained in the past century," says Rodriguez, whose Social Christian Unity Party is a liberal counter to Arias' more conservative National Liberation Party. He argues...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Costa Rica's President: It's Not Easy Staying Green | 10/10/2009 | See Source »

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