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...George Mason University professor (then at Carnegie Mellon) wrote a book christening the creative class: an expansive group of architects, engineers, musicians, nurses and even lawyers who drive economic growth in today's knowledge economy. Attract those workers, and companies will follow, argued Florida. Some cities, like Detroit and Cleveland, Ohio, took the theory to heart. In other circles, Florida was written off as a quack. (Consider the subtext: tax breaks to lure business are pass?...
Edmund Cardinal Szoka, a Polish-American who heads the government of Vatican City, was one of just four Cardinals called to the bedside of Pope John Paul II in the papal apartment on Friday. TIME?s Jeff Israely spoke at length Saturday with Szoka, 77, the former Archbishop of Detroit, as he sat in his office inside Vatican city...
Hometown: Detroit, Mich...
...Wayne State University in Detroit, Dr. Randall Benson is studying 28 stroke patients to see if he can enhance their impaired speech after existing therapies are no longer effective. First they undergo a brain scan to see which of their language centers are still at least partially active. Then Benson targets those regions with rTMS. "Because things like language are regulated in the brain by a network, when we stimulate in one place, we find activation all over the brain," Benson says...
There is no evidence, say intelligence agencies, that al-Zarqawi's agents have infiltrated the U.S. But authorities remain vigilant. Security sources tell TIME that just last week the FBI sent out two nationwide bulletins warning of a nonspecific threat to railroads in Detroit and Los Angeles. On her visit to Mexico last week, Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice issued her own reminder of the border's vulnerability. "There's no secret," Rice told reporters, "that al-Qaeda will try to get into this country ... by any means they possibly can." --By Adam Zagorin, Timothy J. Burger and Brian Bennett