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Ultimately, the success of a system depends to a large degree on the attitudes of the people within it. Boiled down, most of the government's reforms have a single, extraordinarily ambitious aim: to encourage separating spouses to be reasonable in their negotiations with each other. And there's the...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Giving Fathers A Fairer Go | 3/6/2005 | See Source »

For more than a decade, Khan, the father of Pakistan's nuclear bomb, masterminded a vast, clandestine and hugely profitable enterprise whose mission boiled down to this: selling to a rogues' gallery of nations the technology and equipment to make nuclear weapons. Among Khan's customers were Iran and North...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Man Who Sold the Bomb | 2/6/2005 | See Source »

Frustrations boiled over as the second frame wound down, when a shoving match evolved into an all-out melee at the Union end of the ice. Players scuffled all around Mayotte’s goalmouth, and after several minutes of untangling the pile of bodies, when the referees had broke...

Author: By Rebecca A. Seesel, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Post-Exam Break-Out | 2/2/2005 | See Source »

The faster China pumps out products, the more powerless and frustrated factory workers have become with chronically low wages, poor living conditions and disregard for their rights. Discontent has boiled over in a rising number of strikes and protests. Taiwan-owned Stella International's six Dongguan factories, which employ some...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Trouble on the Line | 1/23/2005 | See Source »

The no-man's-land between popular and literary fiction is fertile, but it can be perilous. Lethem is no stranger to it. He won the 1999 National Book Critics Circle Award for Motherless Brooklyn, which is basically a hard-boiled mystery retrofitted with great writing and highfalutin themes. Most...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Pop Goes the Literature | 12/17/2004 | See Source »

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