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...This is unprecedented because the software bug hit millions of cards," says Michaela Roth, a spokeswoman for the Central Credit Committee (ZKA), a group that represents five public and private banking associations. "We're looking at different options right now and we're confident we can repair the software on the chips...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Year 2010 Bug Strikes German Bank Cards | 1/7/2010 | See Source »

...would pour $190 million into a multilab, nationwide initiative to understand "how and when epigenetic processes control genes." Dr. Elias Zerhouni, who directed the NIH when it awarded the grant, said at the time - in a phrase slightly too dry for its import - that epigenetics had become "a central issue in biology." (See TIME's health and medicine covers...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Why Your DNA Isn't Your Destiny | 1/6/2010 | See Source »

...fact that no amount of security measures can stop a plot if the information about potential terrorists isn't used properly. It's the very centerpiece of the damning 9/11 Commission Report - the ability of intelligence agents to "connect the dots." Five years ago, the commission identified as a central concern the "pervasive problems of managing and sharing information across a large and unwieldy government" and proposed a raft of remedies, including a National Counterterrorism Center, a new director of national intelligence and a wholesale cultural shift in how spies think about information. (Watch TIME's video "Homeland Security Tradeshow...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Obama's Terrorism Postmortem: Still Not Connecting the Dots | 1/6/2010 | See Source »

...from outlying areas. Canceled school exams and days off from government offices ensured that some tens of thousands were at Revolution Square to receive free food and drink and to carry banners and shout slogans prepared for them by government officials, such as "Death to [Mir-Hossein] Mousavi" [the central figure of the opposition movement] and "Rioter Hypocrites Must Be Executed." There were no pro-government rallies in the large cities of Mashad and Isfahan. (See pictures of the protests in Tehran on Ashura...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Iran's Hard-Liners: How to Fight Spontaneous Combustion | 1/2/2010 | See Source »

...irony however, is that the Somalis who make up Hassan's community are fleeing one basket case country for what is increasingly another. "Yemen isn't a state - it's never been a fully functioning state in terms of a central government that actually provides services to its people," says one foreign aid official who wished to remain anonymous due the sensitivity of his job. For that reason, the residents of Bassatine say they're forced to rely on the generosity of community members and local NGOs to make ends meet; the government - though relatively welcoming, they say - simply...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Somalis in Yemen: Intertwined Basket Cases | 1/1/2010 | See Source »

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