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By the time the pathogen colloquially known as swine flu had bounced to almost every corner of the world in April, health officials were girding for a once-in-a-lifetime pandemic with the potential to kill millions. H1N1 ripped through the U.S., prompting President Obama to declare a national...

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

Some 14,000 people have been killed since President Felipe Calderón declared war on Mexico's drug cartels three years ago, sparking a brutal conflict that showed no sign of easing in 2009. Battered border cities like Juárez witnessed up to a dozen or more murders a day...

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

According to a January report from UCLA's Civil Rights Project, African-American and Latino schoolchildren are more segregated than they have been since the time of Martin LutherKing Jr.'s death, in 1968. In the 2006-07 school year, nearly 40% attended schools--many of them subpar "dropout factories...

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

The near miss aboard the Northwest/Delta flight highlights the difficulty in setting screening in the right places to catch would-be terrorists. Britain's denial of entry to Abdulmutallab may in itself not have required the U.S. to be informed, British officials said. But even without that clue, Abdulmutallab's...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Why Was the Accused Bomber Banned in Britain, Not the U.S.? | 12/28/2009 | See Source »

Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano said Monday that the lists' logic needs to be reviewed, given Abdulmutallab's ability to slip through the cracks. She made the TV rounds Monday to back away from her Sunday claim to ABC News that the "system has worked really very, very smoothly." On...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Why Was the Accused Bomber Banned in Britain, Not the U.S.? | 12/28/2009 | See Source »

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