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Yet there's nothing ironic about the horrors we witness: a girl by the roadside with her legs blown off, civilian buildings bombed in error, a disembodied arm reaching from the sand like a scene from Carrie. Because Kill covers the war's early days, when the U.S. steamrolled Saddam...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Theater of the Absurd | 7/10/2008 | See Source »

Concerns over environmental problems spoiling Beijing's Olympiad have usually centered on the city's air quality, but a new threat to the Games has materialized in the sea. The waters off the coastal city of Qingdao, the venue for the Olympic sailing events, have become choked with thick, green...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Green Threat to the Olympics | 7/1/2008 | See Source »

More than 10,000 troops and close to 100,000 volunteers have been deployed to battle the algae, says Gao Zhenhui, director of the State Oceanic Administration's North China Sea Environmental Monitoring Center in Qingdao. "At first we didn't realize how big it would be," Gao says. "We...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Green Threat to the Olympics | 7/1/2008 | See Source »

In Patikul, on Jolo island, General Juancho Sabban, who heads the country's anti-terrorism task force, gives a guided tour of a former Abu Sayyaf base close to one of his forward operating bases. "See how difficult it is to see the bunkers," he says, striding nimbly through the...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Inside the Manhunt | 6/26/2008 | See Source »

"We're being watched worldwide," says Grove-White, a British power-industry veteran whose experience covers four continents and every system, from wind and hydro to nuclear and coal. "The climate debate has focused an awful lot of interest on the commercial development of these resources."

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Deep Heat | 6/26/2008 | See Source »

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