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...Robert Baer, a former CIA field officer assigned to the Middle East, is the author of See No Evil and, most recently, the novel Blow the House Down...
...Reporting In "The real war" [Dec. 25, 2006?Jan. 1, 2007], author Bob Woodward said, "It is almost a war without a home front ... There is almost a sense that we're not at war. I can't explain that phenomenon, but I find it deeply troubling." What's so difficult? As Woodward correctly pointed out, almost no one at home is being asked to sacrifice. If this truly were a national effort, everyone would be asked to sacrifice, and that would mean a draft, so the burden would be shared equally. But the Administration is afraid to even breathe...
...There's plenty of canon fodder on the lists. Zane, who's the books editor at the Raleigh News & Observer, has done a statistical breakdown of the results, so we know, for example, that Shakespeare is the most-represented author (followed by Faulkner, who ties with Henry James; they're followed by a five-way tie, which you can read about for yourself). But I'm more interested in the dark horses, the statistical outliers, which lay bare the secret fetishes and perversions of the literati. Douglas Coupland puts Capote's unfinished Answered Prayers at number one, blowing right...
Plunging into natural latex may not only feel good but may also be good for you. "I like natural latex because of its breathability, and by its very nature, latex is a supportive material," says Michael Breus, a clinical psychologist specializing in sleep disorders and the author of Good Night: The Sleep Doctor's 4-Week Program to Better Sleep and Better Health. Too pricey? One-third of our lives is spent lying in bed, says Carlos H. Schenck, a staff psychiatrist at the Minnesota Regional Sleep Disorders Center and the author of Sleep: The Mysteries, the Problems...
...reporting to covering China's remarkable transformation. We're fortunate that TIME's Asia edition is headquartered in Hong Kong; our reporters and editors there have long used their vantage point to assess how a changing China is changing the world. As Michael Elliott, editor of TIME International and author of this week's cover story, says, "Watching China now is like being in one of those science-fiction movies where you can see a whole new planet take shape before your eyes." It's a story that could have many different outcomes: China could fulfill its sense of destiny...