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...Fragile Peace Naturally, archaeology's Jerusalem Syndrome is not limited to a single religion. Many Muslim scholars refuse to believe that a Jewish temple ever existed beneath the Haram al-Sharif, or Temple Mount, even though thousands of Jews flock every day to pray at the Western Wall. The Waqf - Jerusalem's Islamic authority - made Jews furious in 1999 when they built an underground mosque inside the Haram al-Sharif and, according to irate Israeli scholars, gouged out "several hundred" trucks' worth of debris, destroying evidence that might shed light on Judaism's holiest site. "This was politically motivated," fumes...
...prominent publication like TIME. I was sorry to see, however, that human trafficking in the U.S. was not mentioned. There have been cases of trafficking and slavery reported in all 50 states and D.C., and Kevin Bales, founder of Free the Slaves, estimates the number of modern-day slaves in the U.S. to be between 40,000 and 50,000. Leaving out this information allows readers to assume that it is a problem only in a faraway place. Elizabeth Tromans Hamilton, Ohio...
...then came Jan. 12, and for Li and Baidu, things went from the sublime to the ridiculous. That's the day Google drew its now famous line in the sand, saying it was no longer willing to censor its Internet searches in China - as the authoritarian government demands - given what it believes have been repeated attempts by Chinese authorities to hack its systems and steal dissidents' Gmail addresses. However noble Google's sentiment may be, in business terms it was "effectively a suicide note" when it came to the search business, as one rival Internet executive put it. "Google...
...windy road to a pub where she, her son and other Flowerdale residents stayed briefly before they were evacuated to Yea, a nearby town. The couple's weatherboard home burnt to the ground. "Nothing was salvageable," says Minten. Still, the family was lucky. Many others died that day trying to escape the way that Collins did, crashing into trees that were impossible to see in the smoke. (See pictures of the deadly 2009 wildfires...
...1960s, evaluates the difficulty in extinguishing fires under various combinations of temperature and wind. For most of years since it's been used, an FDI warning of 50 out of 100 points indicated that an area was at extreme risk. But in recent years, there have been many days where the index has hovered around the 100 mark, a shift some attribute to climate change. On Feb. 7, when the FDI reached an unprecedented high of 150, most people interpreted that number as just another dry, windy day when the FDI was high again. "Victoria was prepared for a really...