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...Pont chemist, was trying to find a new kind of refrigerant for manufacturers and filled a tank with a gas related to Freon. When he opened it later, he found he had accidentally created a slippery white powder. General Leslie Groves, heading the Manhattan Project to build the atom bomb, heard about the substance from a Du Pont friend when his scientists were looking for a material for gaskets that could resist the bomb's corrosive gas, uranium hexafluoride. Groves had Du Pont make Teflon for the bomb, but it wasn't until 1960 that it coated pans and muffin...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Eureka! ... But What Is It? | 2/6/2006 | See Source »

...years since, many Western observers have conceded that the pre-emptive strike, which set back Baghdad's nuclear weapons program by years, was justified-especially given Saddam's subsequent warmongering and readiness to use non-conventional weapons. With Iran now on course to build its own bomb, the question on everyone's mind is, would Israel do it again...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: An Israeli Attack Against Iran? | 2/6/2006 | See Source »

...Braddock is just one of at least 345 who have had amputations--a higher rate per injury than in any other modern U.S. war. Most survivors, like Braddock, are left to pick up the pieces of their lives out of public view. But last month's roadside bomb attack on ABC News co-anchor Bob Woodruff and his cameraman Doug Vogt put the war and the fate of the wounded back in the headlines--and more important, in our thoughts...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Wounded Soldier Strives to Return | 2/5/2006 | See Source »

Green salt isn't something you'd want to sprinkle on French fries. It's what nuclear chemists call uranium tetrafluoride, a grainy substance that can be used to make fuel for a nuclear reactor or fissile material for a bomb. In short, it's scary stuff, which is why the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) confronted Iran late last month about a secret Iranian research effort called the Green Salt Project. Iran has long maintained that it wants to enrich uranium to generate nuclear power, not to make a bomb. But disclosure of the project--and its apparent links...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Iran's Green-Salt Blues | 2/5/2006 | See Source »

...deeply affronted by the link made between Muslims' faith and violence. If the cartoonists had shown a real terrorist with a bomb on his head, I wouldn't care less, but why should my faith be portrayed in this way? More Muslims' deaths are caused by the violence of Western politics than Muslims are responsible for causing. Using the freedom-of-expression argument, Europe has found yet another way of telling us we are not wanted, we do not belong. And I hate...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: When Cultures Collide | 2/5/2006 | See Source »

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