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...Disease Control in the eastern province of Jiangsu was quoted in the local paper as advising citizens to eat plenty of snake to boost their immune systems against SARS. Despite the wildlife ban, mesh bags crawling with snakes are heaped on plywood counters in Shanghai's outlying Fengxian district, alongside hopping nets of wild frogs...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Noxious Nosh | 6/2/2003 | See Source »

...believe that Bush has been true blue on the lower courts in order to pave the way for nominating the more moderate Gonzales. And perhaps to burnish his conservative credentials, Gonzales has helped select and then sell these judicial nominees. He has personally met nearly all the candidates for district and appellate seats and says they are never asked their opinions on any hot-button issues...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Bush's Supreme Challenge | 5/26/2003 | See Source »

...gunfire are daily features of life in Chechnya. But even by those sorry standards, last week marked a low in its recent history. On Monday, a truck bearing explosives equivalent to two tons of TNT rumbled into a residential and office compound in Znamenskoye, a township in the Nadterechny district, and exploded, killing 59 people and injuring 200. Two days later, a bomb at a festival near the capital, Grozny, killed at least 18 and injured more than five times as many. Secretary of State Colin Powell, who had just landed in Moscow, called the bombings barbarous. Standing...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Fumbling In Chechnya | 5/26/2003 | See Source »

...TIME: We have eyewitness accounts of soldiers executing Acehnese villagers aged 11 to 20 in northern Bireun district. Do you think it's okay to kill kids? RYAMIZARD: It's not a matter of being a child. If they are armed and fire, they will be shot, because children?and women?can kill...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: "No Region Can Break Away" | 5/26/2003 | See Source »

Also, while there are certainly many competitive people at Harvard, it’s drastically inappropriate to equate their actions with those of Blair Hornstine, who is single-handedly attempting to bankrupt her entire public school district just to assure that no one shares the title of “valedictorian” with her. This displays a ruthless disregard for her entire community and a level of selfishness far deeper than that of most any competitive Harvard student. Unlike Podolsky, I and many others do find this act “uniquely outrageous...

Author: By Jonah M. Knobler, | Title: Blair Hornestine An Exceptional Case | 5/23/2003 | See Source »

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