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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...Sept. 11, torture would have led to the arrests of the 18 others before those planes took off. The truth is less sensational and more unsettling--but ultimately one that Americans should learn to accept. There are ticking time bombs out there. But torture won't get us any closer to discovering when they're going...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Dumb Intelligence | 4/23/2009 | See Source »

...move by Taliban-backed militants into the Buner district of northwestern Pakistan, closer than ever to Pakistan's capital of Islamabad, have prompted concerns both within the country and abroad that the nuclear-armed nation of 165 million is on the verge of inexorable collapse...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Taliban Advance: Is Pakistan Nearing Collapse? | 4/23/2009 | See Source »

...York Times Co., management put on mourning clothes for their earnings call. Revenue fell a little over 18%, which was closer to Yahoo!'s drop than champions of Internet advertising would like. Advertising revenue killed the newspaper company's sales by dropping 27%, to $335 million. Fans of paying for content will note that subscriber revenue was up 1%, to $229 million, but that money came from people buying physical papers and not online content. (See 25 people to blame for the financial crisis...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Yahoo!'s Earnings Drop: New Media Suffering like Old | 4/22/2009 | See Source »

Your documentary gives the impression that killer whales are cuddly, social creatures. Have they gotten a bad rap over the years? People seem to equate them with great white sharks. (See pictures of a closer look at sharks...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Jean-Michael Cousteau on Killer Whales | 4/22/2009 | See Source »

...Dogs are very sensitive to human cues, such as following a finger to a target object.” While monkeys and chimpanzees have been used in similar studies, Hauser believes that dogs have a higher ability to follow such human cues. “Chimpanzees are much closer in many ways, in terms of genetics, but cannot follow this cue that we have been following since infancy.” While this mental sophistication might come as a surprise to some, an avid dog-lover attests to the study’s truth. “Of course...

Author: By Brianne Corcoran, CONTRIBUTING WRITERS | Title: William James Hall Goes to the Dogs | 4/21/2009 | See Source »

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