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...Terrorism because "this new strategy of al-Qaeda is to empower and motivate individuals to commit acts of violence completely outside any terrorist chain of command." Senator Joe Lieberman of Connecticut has dubbed Fort Hood shooter Major Nidal Malik Hasan a "self-radicalized, homegrown terrorist" - a one-man terrorism cell. (See pictures of the memorial service for the Fort Hood victims...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Fort Hood Highlights a Threat of Homegrown Jihad | 11/11/2009 | See Source »

...typical reality of dingy rooms barely large enough for a bed. At any given time, there are some 4,000 residents living in 15 floors of apartments and 10,000 others passing through the complex's restaurants and dimly lit bazaar, which sells everything from saffron to sex to cell phones. And there are a lot of cell phones. Gordon Mathews, an anthropology professor at Chinese University of Hong Kong who has written extensively about Chungking Mansions, estimates that about 15% of sub-Saharan Africa's handsets - or more than 10 million units - flow through the building each year. Mathews...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: U.S. Crime Writer Tackles a Real Hong Kong Cold Case | 11/10/2009 | See Source »

...Kara Pernice of the consultancy Nielsen Norman Group. Don't let the bland title fool you: what Nielsen and Pernice have done is track the eye movements of hundreds of people as they navigate websites, looking up advice on how to deal with heartburn, shopping for baby presents, picking cell-phone features, learning about Mikhail Baryshnikov. By bouncing infrared beams off a person's retinas and recording head movements with a camera, the researchers were able to deduce what sort of ads garner attention in real time - a methodology that runs laps around later asking people to recall what they...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Why We Look at Some Web Ads and Not Others | 11/8/2009 | See Source »

Stanford stem cell researchers are poised to receive $52 million from California's stem cell research agency...

Author: By Bonnie J. Kavoussi, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Around the Ivies Plus | 11/7/2009 | See Source »

...Continuing his penchant for befriending powerful people, served as Mayor Rudy Giuliani's bodyguard and driver in 1993. Giuliani appointed him a deputy city corrections commissioner in 1995 and corrections commissioner in 1998, where he became known for making unannounced visits to cell blocks at 2 a.m. and successfully lowered inmate violence and sick-day abuse by guards. (Read "Can a New York Cop Tame Baghdad...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Bernard Kerik | 11/6/2009 | See Source »

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