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With much of Mexico worried about drug-cartel violence, the explosions that tore apart natural-gas and oil pipelines on Sept. 10 in the state of Veracruz caught many by surprise. The suspects? The leftist Popular Revolutionary Army, a once dormant group that staged a similar attack two months ago in the hopes of securing the freedom of a pair of its captured comrades...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Dashboard: Sep. 24, 2007 | 9/13/2007 | See Source »

...world's best miler (John Walker), one of cricket's greatest fast bowlers (Richard Hadlee) and yachtsmen skilled enough to win the America's Cup twice. While all of these men knew how it felt to compete under a nation's expectation, the All Blacks are a case apart. Failure has never been an option for them. Their hardheaded coach Graham Henry sounds positively Nietzschean when he declares: "The success of our rugby team is important to the psyche of the nation - we understand that, we agree with that and we live by that...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Black Arts | 9/6/2007 | See Source »

...their styles, the movies are poles apart: Redacted is constructed entirely of seemingly real snippets of media: YouTube-like blogs, video posts, picture-phone emails and a daily video record of the war kept by one soldier, Angel Salazar (Izzy Diaz); it's a multimedia mockumentary. Elah is more traditional, a crime procedural that involves a police detective (Theron) and the murdered GI's father (Jones). But both films have a startling impact and a lingering chill. Just as important, both demand that their viewers consider the cost of the government's decision to invade a land no American...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Iraq War Films Focus on Soldiers | 9/1/2007 | See Source »

...Nelson's theory has been picked apart by two veterans of the field who could be said to favor a more spiritual view of NDEs. In a recent issue of the Journal of Near-Death Studies, Americans Jeffrey Long and Janice Miner Holden argue that since 40% of NDErs in Nelson's study denied ever having had an episode of REM intrusion, the idea that it underlies NDEs "seems questionable at best...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: At the Hour Of Our Death | 8/31/2007 | See Source »

Identical twins Mary and Alice Lieberman have been zygotically close all their 55 years, even as adults living hundreds of miles apart. Two years ago, they were especially excited about seeing each other: Mary, a social worker, had moved to Poughkeepsie, N.Y., from Austin, Texas, and she hadn't seen Alice, a social-work professor at the University of Kansas in Lawrence, for more than a year...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The War Over Going Gray | 8/31/2007 | See Source »

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