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Congressman Jikiri agrees that any talk of Abu Sayyaf's demise is premature. "How can anyone say they are destroyed when they are still there and are still very active?" he says. "In fact, they have been conducting fresh recruitment." Jikiri is a senior official of the Moro National Liberation...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Winning A War of Stealth | 6/12/2008 | See Source »

This became even clearer when Delta made the mistake of letting me work the p.a. system. The airplane p.a., it always seemed from my passenger seat, where I fought the urge to grab it, is the most powerful broadcasting tool in the world. You can interrupt 200 people's entertainment...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Scared of Flight Attendants? Become One | 6/12/2008 | See Source »

Those Guantánamo prisoners facing charges now, or in the future, will have the right to file their own habeas corpus petitions in U.S. courts, challenging the basis of their detention. But such challenges will probably proceed in parallel with their military-commission trials at Guantánamo, some...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: What the Gitmo Ruling Means | 6/12/2008 | See Source »

But any celebration now appears premature. Along the river, signs are emerging that dams will be built, and soon. In March the State Development and Reform Commission published its five-year plan for energy development, which listed the commencement of work on two dams on the Nu as key projects...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Damming China's River Wild | 6/10/2008 | See Source »

Sixty miles downstream other crews are at work on a bridge and dam foundation at Saige, which along with Xiaoshaba are the two sites mentioned in the develoment and reform commission's five-year plan. While signs say the Saige work is for a transportation project, a surveyor standing on...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Damming China's River Wild | 6/10/2008 | See Source »

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