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...oldest sport, but it doesn't lack for innovation. As marketers aim to lure more women and children to the waters, stay-dry duds, flashy lures and novice-friendly rods are all catching on. Here's some of the newest gear making waves this summer...
...villain Julie Cooper. The series humanizes figures we know as marble busts: Caesar is a calculating pol, Mark Antony (James Purefoy) a narcissistic ass and Octavian (Max Pirkis)--Atia's son and the future Caesar Augustus--a precocious boy with a gift for Machiavellian strategy. The aim is to take those historical giants off their pedestals. "Nothing changes that much," Stevenson tells TIME. "Politicians will always be politicians...
...never faced a challenge like this one. Although trained as a foreign policy realist who has argued the U.S. should act based on a cold calculus of national interest, rather than to advance ideological goals, Rice has more recently embraced Bush's gauzy belief that pursuing the ambitious aim of bringing political reform to the Arab world represents the best possible salve against the threat of Islamic terrorism. "What are your choices?" she asks. "Your choices are: to somehow reinstitute control, which would be against our principles, or to have faith in the democratic enterprise as one actually that...
Suddenly the market for BlackBerrys isn't quite so sweet. The handheld device--made by Research in Motion (RIM), which pioneered on-the-go e-mail in 1999--is facing stiff competition from a brambly bunch determined to break the BlackBerry's monopoly. In July, Motorola and Microsoft took aim with their wireless e-mail phone, called Q, which will hit stores early next year. Motorola is also rolling out an iTunes phone with Apple. That's more bad news for RIM. Because the BlackBerry is mainly limited to e-mail on its proprietary platform, many execs are switching...
...rank with the resurrection of Lazarus, but the pacification of 100 teenagers who just had glazed doughnuts for breakfast is at least a minor miracle. It's one that churches across the U.S., especially burgeoning Protestant congregations with large youth programs, are trying to duplicate. They aim to reconnect with adolescents, better known for fidgeting in the pews, by giving them their own space to play and pray while serving them the right mix of power chords and Scripture. Experts disagree about how deep or lasting those religious experiences are, but simply by reaching out to 13-year-olds, churches...