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...scenes occurs at a weapons trade show. Representatives from Boeing, Lockheed Martin, Raytheon, and a swarm of other arms companies routinely host such shows, during which they hawk their killing wares to Pentagon officials and military advisers. The atmosphere of these events is no different than that of a boat or auto show, down to the balloon-sculpting clowns and stage magicians...

Author: By Bernard L. Parham, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Why We Fight | 2/3/2006 | See Source »

...Landrieu-have built a formidable political dynasty in Orleans Parish since the 1970s when Moon Landrieu served as the city's desegregationist mayor. During the aftermath of Katrina, while the mayor was struggling with the woes inside the Superdome, Mitch was acting like a macho man out in a boat saving people. "Nagin just went from almost a sure thing," says pollster Bernie Pinsonat, "to probably an underdog against Landrieu...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: New Orleans Mayor's Newest Foe | 2/1/2006 | See Source »

...first time people have complained about rogue crocodiles in Lakefield National Park. In the mid-1990s, a radical kind of aversion therapy was tried there in which rangers captured a crocodile, then shot a rifle near it, repeatedly circled it in a boat, and dazzled it with a spotlight. Says one ranger: "That croc has behaved itself ever since." But not all experts endorse such tactics. At Charles Darwin University in Darwin, Professor Graham Webb, who pioneered crocodile research and management in the Northern Territory, says unpleasant encounters with humans make the reptiles much harder to spot. "All it will...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Where Did the Crocs Go? | 1/30/2006 | See Source »

...crocodiles captured in the state between 1999 and 2001 were relocated in North Queensland. Are these crocodiles too clever to be caught again? Have some of them made their way back to their old haunts? With some of these reptiles originally captured near public beaches, boat ramps and even golf courses in well-populated areas, it would be worth locating a few answers...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Where Did the Crocs Go? | 1/30/2006 | See Source »

...didn?t see because I didn?t get off the boat. But I heard about it. Atallah Shabazz, Malcolm X and Betty Shabazz?s eldest daughter was on the boat as a guest and she called me when she got the note that said there would be protesters and she said ?I would like to go speak on your behalf and on behalf of the boat? which of course made me cry, it was like a movie. She?s a close friend and someone I look to for guidance in my life, spiritually and in many ways, and I knew...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sundance Buzz: A Family Affair | 1/25/2006 | See Source »

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