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...atmosphere was festive, with musicians playing on top of the T stop and TV trucks waiting nearby. Tourists and passersby were curious about I DECIDE, and many bought shirts or called swing states...

Author: By Adam M. Guren, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: ‘I DECIDE’ Calls Swing States | 11/2/2004 | See Source »

...scientists at the institute had used lasers to enrich uranium. Uranium used in fuel rods is lightly enriched, usually less than 5%. During the 2000 experiment, however, researchers produced uranium that was 77% enriched, or nearly weapons grade. Seoul characterized the laser experiment as independent research carried out by curious scientists who then neglected to report it. But TIME has been told by two sources that one of the scientists involved in the 2000 experiment was Lee Jong Min, a vice president at KAERI at the time and one of the country's top laser experts. Lee's office...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nuclear Shell Games | 11/1/2004 | See Source »

...curious about the people behind the station. I grew up in Cairo, with state-run TV that consisted of a guy reading government press releases. Al-Jazeera is unique in that it's not state...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Channeling Arab Opinion | 11/1/2004 | See Source »

...AOTC is also notable for its poetic language—especially near the middle of the film when Lucas exposes the curious dialectics of rough/coarse and soft/smooth. Framed within the grand love story of the film, young Anakin Skywalker compares Natalie Portman’s skin to the harsh sand of his home planet Tattooine. Lucas puts the ball in the audience’s court as he asks: What is the nature of smoothness? Roughness...

Author: By Clint J. Froehlich, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Happy Halloween, Everybody! | 10/29/2004 | See Source »

...Iraqis hit on the same idea "independently." But the ayatullah has indicated he disapproves of the unified slate. "He's afraid the way the voting is being set up, the Shi'ites might be cheated out of their majority," says Michigan's Cole. The system has also encouraged the curious alliance of the religious al-Sadr and the secular Ahmad Chalabi, former U.S. favorite, who see in each other a way to trump Sistani's power. The ayatullah is agitating for changes that would give Islamic parties aligned with him a higher profile. While the cleric has not tried...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Iraq's Shadow Ruler | 10/25/2004 | See Source »

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