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He speaks his mind, keeps several steps ahead of his superiors and violates just about every other rule of the road for diplomats in the U.S. foreign service. Yet within four days of his arrival in Mogadishu last week, Robert Oakley had succeeded in shrugging off America's preoccupation with...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: OAKLEY'S GAMBIT | 7/21/2008 | See Source »

What is troubling about both recent French accidents is that they involved nuclear waste, the disposal of which is perhaps the major curb to nuclear power's appeal. Areva cited human error in the Tricastin incident and said it had fired the responsible director after an internal investigation found "evident...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: French Doubts Up After Nuke Mishaps | 7/18/2008 | See Source »

The patients exposed to bright lights consistently scored one point higher on cognition tests during the five-year study than those residing under normal light conditions. "The results are interesting, and worth paying attention to," says Dr. Marilyn Albert, a neurologist at Johns Hopkins School of Medicine. Light, the study...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Bright Lights May Hold Off Dementia | 6/10/2008 | See Source »

There is also little evidence to support the claim made by antivaccine activists that the battery of shots kids receive can damage the immune system rather than strengthen it. Experts stress that it's not the number of inoculations that matters but the number of immune-stimulating antigens-or proteins...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: How Safe Are Vaccines? | 5/21/2008 | See Source »

One friend tells Forman of a recurring nightmare: 26 wild dogs gallop through a town and stop to howl menacingly at the man's window. He explains that when Israeli soldiers neared a Lebanese town, dogs would bark at them alerting the locals to invaders, so his job was to...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cartoon Pandas, Animated Nightmares | 5/15/2008 | See Source »

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