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Accelerate is awfully good--if not quite great--but what's indisputable is that it goes by fast. Producer Garret (Jacknife) Lee, who worked on U2's "still-got-it!" record, How to Dismantle an Atomic Bomb, thereby earning a Ph.D. in jarring legends from complacency, grasped that making an album that didn't stop to think would solve R.E.M.'s two biggest problems: Stipe's tendency toward romantic drift and Buck's stunted, decadelong desire to plug in his guitar and blow people away. Dispensing with dirge-y ballads and long musical bridges to nowhere, Accelerate clocks...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: R.E.M.: Finding Their Religion | 3/27/2008 | See Source »

...funded by the Heritage Foundation, a Washington think tank. It reported that technology currently exists to orbit more than 400 "killer satellites" that could knock out Soviet missiles. There were other supporters of the idea, most notably Edward Teller, the hawkish physicist known as "the father of the hydrogen bomb...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Archive: Reagan for the Defense | 3/21/2008 | See Source »

Because of security crackdowns, they are unable to reach out to al-Qaeda's original leadership, but they can access jihadi Internet forums for guidance and bomb-making expertise. The Madrid train bombings of 2004, which killed 191 commuters, are an example of an atrocity committed by such young men. The attacks were an "offering to al-Qaeda Central leaders for ... admission into the ranks of global Islamist terrorism," Sageman writes...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Jihadi Next Door | 3/20/2008 | See Source »

...smoke and bodies.' MOHAMMED KADHEM, witness to a woman's suicide-bomb attack that killed at least 52 people in the Shi'ite holy city of Karbala, Iraq...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Verbatim | 3/20/2008 | See Source »

...Imad Mughniyah - the Hizballah military commander assassinated in Damascus on February 12. It shouldn't have been a big deal: Mughniyah's pictures line the road from the airport into town. But the lady who ran the office looked at us as if we personally had detonated the car bomb that killed...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Bracing for a New Hizballah-Israel War | 3/19/2008 | See Source »

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