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...Palestinian militants of Hamas are sworn enemies. And on Tuesday night, the truce brokered by Egypt last June that has largely stamped out violence across the boundary between Israel and Gaza, appeared in danger of collapse: Israeli troops, backed by helicopter gunships and tanks, crossed into Gaza to destroy a tunnel being dug by militants, supposedly to launch a raid inside Israel...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Will Israel-Hamas Clash Threaten the Truce? | 11/5/2008 | See Source »

...much-anticipated announcement, Scotland's finance secretary John Swinney gave Trump permission to go ahead with his $1.56 billion investment, overruling the local authority, Aberdeenshire council, which last year turned down Trump's development on the grounds that it would destroy the ecologically sensitive dunes...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Trump to Build Contested Scotland Complex | 11/4/2008 | See Source »

...must be made, and there is no painless way to eliminate funding for vital state services. But what is completely incomprehensible is that, in this climate of rising deficits and depleted social services, some misguided voters still support Ballot Question One—a Massachusetts referendum that promises to destroy one of the most significant sources of state revenue. Today, the ballot initiative will ask voters whether to eliminate the state income tax. We hope that they respond with a resounding “no.” The state income tax accounts for 40 percent of Massachusetts?...

Author: By The Crimson Staff | Title: Fiscal Madness | 11/3/2008 | See Source »

...Taliban could also be stockpiling drugs in preparation for a possible onslaught on Afghanistan's drug lords. NATO defense ministers agreed at a summit in Budapest this month to use their soldiers in Afghanistan for the first time to attack opium laboratories and smuggling convoys, rather than simply destroy opium crops...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Is the Taliban Stockpiling Opium? And If So, Why? | 10/29/2008 | See Source »

...type 1 diabetes, a person’s t-cells destroy insulin-producing cells in his or her pancreas, mistaking them for foreign cells...

Author: By Elyssa A. L. Spitzer, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Researchers Discover Potential Diabetes Cure | 10/24/2008 | See Source »

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