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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...this soul-sapping would-be comedy. Maybe I'm missing the wit in the Alvin 2 pileup of purloined plot points, toilet and fart jokes and tired references to old movies. (The "You talkin' to me" bit from Taxi Driver simply must be retired from overuse.) Or maybe kids aren't as cinematically precocious as I thought they were. (See the top 10 movies...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Alvin 2: The Unspeakable Squeakquel | 12/30/2009 | See Source »

...methods for tracking terrorists still aren't working It turns out that Washington's way of ranking likely terrorists, which was overhauled after Sept. 11, still resembles a Rube Goldberg contraption. There are four different U.S. terrorism databases, and yet Abdulmutallab's name never rose above the least threatening...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: What We Can Learn from Flight 253 | 12/30/2009 | See Source »

...motorcade drove past Kapiolani Medical Center for Women and Children, the hospital where he was born, as well as the Baskin-Robbins where he held his first job as a teenager. Pool reports noted that Obama's motorcade was larger than normal, halting traffic along his route. Hawaii residents aren't used to visitors like this, but they coped with the disruption; in some cases motorists simply turned off their engines while waiting for the President to pass through...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Obamas' Vacation: Not So Low-Key After All | 12/29/2009 | See Source »

...called pentaerythritol tetranitrate (PETN), and it is powerful even in quantities as small as a hundredth of a pound. It comes from the same chemical family as nitroglycerin and has a long history of use in terrorist attacks. Though PETN itself is controlled, the chemicals used to make it aren't that hard to find - and Abdulmutallab or any other bombers would likely be able to obtain the explosive on the black market if they couldn't synthesize it themselves. The shoe bomber Richard Reid tried to use PETN to destroy a plane over the Atlantic...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Why It's Not Easy to Detonate a Bomb on Board | 12/28/2009 | See Source »

After reading the TIME 100, I came to several conclusions. First, the world is apparently being shaped by virtual unknowns. Second, the real influential people seem to be the ones writing the essays. Third, aren't the media that report on what most affects Americans among the most influential? Curiously, their names were missing...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Inbox | 12/28/2009 | See Source »

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