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Kristol, Bill •opinion of, shared by Brit Hume, that "it might be worth doing some targeted air strikes" against North Korea...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: This Preposterous Week! Paul Slansky's News Index | 6/5/2009 | See Source »

Breaking Bad •airing of brilliant season finale of - ending with plane crash over Albuquerque - coincides with plunge of Air France jet into the Atlantic...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: This Preposterous Week! Paul Slansky's News Index | 6/5/2009 | See Source »

...full of life - a verdant forest, overgrown and blossoming, with rolling German farmland in the distance. "There's a certain irony about the beauty of the landscape and the horror that took place here," Obama said after walking through the grounds, as puffy white seedlings floated through the air. Elie Wiesel, the Nobel Peace Prize-winning author, who had been a prisoner at the camp as a teenager, walked with Obama. "If these trees could talk," Wiesel said...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Obama at Buchenwald: A Message to Those Who Forget, or Deny | 6/5/2009 | See Source »

...late afternoon, Obama was making the rounds of the Landstuhl Regional Medical Center, the central clearinghouse for the wounded and sick among America's overseas military. In an average month, between 600 and 800 new patients are admitted, landing on planes at nearby Ramstein Air Force Base. Since the initial U.S. invasion of Afghanistan in 2001, the hospital has treated 10,820 battle wounded. While Obama toured the grounds, the public-address system played a children's nursery chime. It signaled that a woman at the hospital had just given birth; soldiers say it happens all the time. (See pictures...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Obama at Buchenwald: A Message to Those Who Forget, or Deny | 6/5/2009 | See Source »

...French team leading the investigation into the Air France Flight 447 crash works through the multitude of likely and less likely disaster scenarios - from the repercussions of stormy conditions to an act of terrorism - perhaps among the most difficult to assess will be possible flight computer malfunctions. Air France CEO Pierre-Henry Gourgeon noted on Monday that immediately preceding AF447's disappearance, automatic messages sent by the plane indicated "multiple technical failures." As details emerge regarding these messages, experts will struggle to understand whether they were the inevitable result of the plane's breaking up or indicators of the failures...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Could a Computer Glitch Have Brought Down Air France 447? | 6/5/2009 | See Source »

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