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...final link to home by "losing" his passport. Many other Chinese do the same to ward off deportation - it's hard to send someone home if their nationality is not clear - despite a British law mandating up to two years' imprisonment for illegals who destroy their...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Dreams of Leaving | 4/12/2007 | See Source »

...African story is simple, and the current violence has its roots in older injustices. "Colonialism lasted just long enough to destroy much of Africa's indigenous cultures and traditions," Godwin observes, "but not long enough to leave behind a durable replacement." Godwin's own story lends another layer of historical irony. In 2001 he learned that his father was not, as he had always believed, an English immigrant. He was a Polish Jew who had fled the Holocaust. "Being a white here," Godwin's father observes, dismayed at the rising chaos, "is starting to feel a bit like being...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cheat Sheet | 4/12/2007 | See Source »

...vaccine researchers because its cells all carry a protein, called an idiotype, that distinguishes them from their healthy counterparts. Mixing the idiotype with other substances that trigger immunological responses, "the vaccine presents a tumor protein to the patients in such a way that their immune systems recognize it and destroy any cells bearing that protein," explains Larry Kwak, associate director of Cancer Immunology Research at Houston's MD Anderson Cancer Center and a leading vaccine researcher...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Disease is the Remedy | 4/11/2007 | See Source »

...scuffled with antiwar protesters-mostly Sinhalese but some Tamils-at a rally in Colombo. "Clearly when groups fight, the first attempt should be to solve it through talks," says the Venerable Athuraliye Rathana, who heads the Buddhist group. "But we cannot tolerate [the Tigers'] terrorist activities. We have to destroy [them], and then we can talk." It's the mantra of a nation: kill or be killed. In the camp outside Batticaloa, as Jeevatharsini finishes her schoolwork, her father ponders what he will do next: "Because of the losses I have [suffered], the depression and frustration," says Sinnathambi, "sometimes...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Endless War | 4/5/2007 | See Source »

...world war." Can you say explicitly whom we're fighting against? -Mike Murphy Mount Holly, N.J. We are fighting against a perversion of the Muslim faith led by radical clerics who have convinced a growing number of adherents that their purpose on earth is to kill, dismember and destroy as many people as possible...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: 10 Questions for Mike Huckabee | 4/5/2007 | See Source »

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