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...arrest of two reporters who covered a high-profile corruption scandal within the transport ministry has been seen as a blow against anti-corruption efforts...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Vietnam's Prime Minister Tackles Inflation | 6/23/2008 | See Source »

...Suicide bombers may end their lives in the same way, but it would be foolish to draw any conclusions about their motivations from a single story. Still, how Hasna came to blow herself up sheds some light on the cycle of hopelessness some Iraqi women find themselves...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Mind of a Female Suicide Bomber | 6/22/2008 | See Source »

...remembers Hasna Maryi ever opening her family's Koran. She rarely attended her village mosque and told others she regarded the Imam there as a lech. So it was not religious extremism that made this villager from Anbar province blow herself up at an Iraqi police checkpoint last summer, killing three officers and injuring at least 10 civilians...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Mind of a Female Suicide Bomber | 6/22/2008 | See Source »

...Kans., and Bakersfield, Calif. No city in American history has slid so far - nor with such dignity. But just as St. Louis thought it had touched bottom (the city posted a tiny population gain in 2006, the first in half a century, up to 353,537), along comes another blow...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Busch's Last Call in St. Louis? | 6/20/2008 | See Source »

...sessions begin by setting off a blasting cap tucked inside a defrosted chicken--talk about a powerful demonstration--and end with a student-produced pyrotechnics show that rivals any city's Fourth of July offering. In between: trips to quarries and mines to witness blasts and the chance to blow up a watermelon. Eat your heart out, Gallagher...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Explosives Camp | 6/19/2008 | See Source »

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