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...more unstable and draws up water vapor from low altitudes to form deep clouds high in the sky. (Those types of high-altitude clouds don't have the same cooling effect.) The Science study also found that as the oceans warmed, the trade winds - the easterly surface winds that blow near the equator - weakened, which further dissipated the low clouds...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: In a Warming World, Cloudy Days Are a Boon | 7/24/2009 | See Source »

...Vinas informed U.S. officials of an Al Qaeda plot to blow up a Long Island Rail Road commuter train in New York's Penn Station, saying that he had provided them with details of the New York transit system. This revelation lead authorities to issue a Nov. 25 2008 terror alert...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Bryant Neal Vinas: An American in Al Qaeda | 7/24/2009 | See Source »

MSNBC • anchors on distance themselves from Pat Buchanan's suggestion that Todd Palin drown Levi Johnston, and then later the same day other anchors on apologize for guest's blurt of the term blow...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: This Preposterous Week! Paul Slansky's News Index | 7/17/2009 | See Source »

...July 17 blasts deal a blow to Indonesia's image. Yudhoyono's resounding re-election on July 8 was widely viewed as a sign of growing stability in the country. Foreign investors had been returning to the country, which is seen as a Southeast Asian success story - a nation where Islam and democracy peacefully coexist. Now that idyll has been shattered...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: After a Four-Year Calm, Bombs Hit Jakarta Hotels | 7/17/2009 | See Source »

...fight for free speech and human rights in Russia suffered another devastating blow on July 15, when the body of Chechnya's most outspoken human-rights activist was found dumped by the side of a road. Natalya Estemirova, 50, had been killed execution-style, shot in the head and chest, just hours after being kidnapped from outside her home in Grozny, the capital of the republic situated in Russia's troubled North Caucasus region. The murder has sparked international outrage and prompted calls for a closer look at the atrocities that have been committed in the North Caucasus...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Killings of Russia's Human-Rights Activists Continue | 7/16/2009 | See Source »

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