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...Each toy includes a wireless headset equipped with forehead and ear sensors that read two kinds of brain waves - alpha and beta, naturally - then relay signals to the bases of the toys, triggering fans that cause the balls to rise. Mindflex's headgear comes with earlobe clips, which significantly increase the I-look-like-a-fool factor. The game requires players to move the ball sideways as well as vertically. There's a knob on the base unit that players must turn (the old-fashioned way, with their hands) while focusing to get the ball, for example, through a tiny...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Mind-Control Toys: The Force Is with You | 2/19/2009 | See Source »

...Peace and Stability In an effort to quell violence, the government struck a deal with insurgents on Feb. 16 that would implement a form of Islamic law in northwest Pakistan. The ruling will cover the Malakand region, which includes the Swat Valley, a onetime tourist spot and now home base for Taliban forces. While militants have agreed to a 10-day cease-fire, critics of the deal labeled the pact a dangerous concession to violent religious extremists...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The World | 2/19/2009 | See Source »

...then there was the timing. It was being proposed at a time when a humiliated GOP base was being asked to sit and watch a “transformative” Democratic president walk on water. How many details of a $900 billion spending bill would it take to provoke a furious negative response from the Republican base...

Author: By Clay A. Dumas | Title: The Glass-Is-Half-Empty Strategy | 2/19/2009 | See Source »

...decision came on a 78-to-1 vote to oust the 1,000 mostly American Forces (French and Spanish NATO-allied troops make up the rest) stationed at the Manas airbase on the outskirts of the Kyrgyzstan capital of Bishkek. The U.S. now has six months to exit the base following President Kurmanbek Bakiyev's signing the bill on Friday. But Defense Secretary Robert Gates quickly said that the U.S. ouster isn't a "closed issue." He has suggested the U.S. might be willing to pay more than the current $17 million annual rent to use the base. Bakiyev telegraphed...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Obama Loses a Key Base for Afghanistan | 2/19/2009 | See Source »

...Burris is showing no signs of voluntarily giving up his seat. In fact, he has stressed that he is the victim and that the media is threatening to destroy his hard-earned reputation. On Monday, Burris made his resolve clear by visiting with his political base in the state's African-American community, which rallied behind him when senate leaders like Harry Reid were initially wary of accepting Blagojevich's appointment. "We put him in, and we're going to keep him in," Rev. Willie Barrow, a leader of the Rainbow/PUSH Coalition, the civil rights organization where the senator served...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Will Burris Be the Next to Fall in the Blago Scandal? | 2/18/2009 | See Source »

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