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...other killer whales drowned a trainer during a performance at Sealand of the Pacific in Vancouver. In 1999, a man who trespassed in SeaWorld after hours and apparently jumped in the whale tank was found dead the next morning, lying across Tilikum's back. Is the big whale a bad seed? At least one marine-mammal expert thinks that yes, that's at least part of the answer...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Killer-Whale Tragedy: What Made Tilikum Snap? | 2/26/2010 | See Source »

There was good news from other fronts too. In Pakistan, a joint operation in Karachi by the CIA and Pakistan's own spy agency, Inter-Services Intelligence (ISI), had netted a very big fish: Mullah Abdul Ghani Baradar, the Afghan Taliban's military chief. In quick succession, the ISI had also rolled up two of the Taliban's "shadow" governors of Afghanistan's provinces and another senior figure. And in North Waziristan, near Pakistan's border with Afghanistan, a missile launched from a CIA drone had struck at the heart of the Haqqani network, an al-Qaeda-affiliated group responsible...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Taking It to the Taliban | 2/25/2010 | See Source »

...this," says Waheed Muzhda, a former Taliban official. "When Mullah Dadullah was killed, some people thought that the Taliban would give up. But it didn't happen, because the Taliban are waging an ideological war, and in an ideological war, this kind of thing doesn't have a big impact." (See a bin Laden family photo album...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Taking It to the Taliban | 2/25/2010 | See Source »

...with engines smaller than 1.6 L. Combined with the relative health of the Chinese economy, car sales soared. In 2009 mainland consumers bought more vehicles than their American counterparts, making China the world's largest car market for the first time. Even so, the Hummer was a little too big for their taste...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Deal Sours, and the Hummer Bites the Dust | 2/25/2010 | See Source »

...Express, that New Delhi should push for a trilateral summit among India, Pakistan and Afghanistan to secure a lasting peace in the region. That may seem like a distant prospect when India and Pakistan have just restarted their dialogue, but perhaps the only move worth making now is a big one. "If its diplomacy is paralyzed by the fear of another attack, India will invite many more," Mohan writes. "Acting boldly, Delhi might have a chance to alter the very political dynamic at the source of these attacks...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: India-Pakistan Talks: Is a Breakthrough Possible? | 2/25/2010 | See Source »

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