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...reasons, such as public safety, for restricting liberty, but without a clear case that the 21-year-old drinking age would cause significantly fewer deaths, we should seek to allow those under 21 who wish to drink to do so.A drinking age of 18 would be far more reasonable. Eighteen is already considered the age of majority for most purposes, such as the ability to join the military, smoke, and vote. It is an insult to those between the ages of 18 and 21 for the state to say that individuals have not reached the age at which they...

Author: By The Crimson Staff | Title: Legislating Under the Influence | 11/20/2008 | See Source »

...Eighteen centimeters shorter and 20 kg lighter and, to state the obvious, Japanese, Notchi is not exactly a dead ringer for his muse. But he does bear a resemblance that is propped up by some signature moves: clenching his hand lightly and holding up his index finger while repeating, "Yes, we can! Change we need!"; stating, "My name is Obama!," while narrowing his eyes slightly and looking into the distance; and walking lightly with one hand in his pocket - a stance that has been praised by the security guards at Obama's Chicago home, who said that's exactly...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Almost Famous: Japan's Obama Impersonator | 11/19/2008 | See Source »

...Eighteen months after the U.S. troop surge aimed at creating the security necessary for Iraqis to resolve their political conflicts, those political conflicts are threatening to become even more complicated. Besides the Arab-Kurd and Sunni-Shi'ite divides, there has long been a struggle among rival political parties for supremacy among the Shi'ites. Shi'ite Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki recently called for amendments to Iraq's constitution to strengthen the central government's power at the expense of the country's 18 provinces. This week, Maliki's rivals in the southern Shi'ite bastion of Basra submitted...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A New Twist in Iraq's Shi'ite Power Struggle | 11/16/2008 | See Source »

...Whatever the fall out is from the Marriott bombing, it may be a nuclear bomb in the hands of terrorists that keeps the CIA awake at night, but it should be that eighteen-wheeler truck that doesn't look any different from all the others...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Why the Car Bomb Is a Terrorist's Best Weapon | 9/22/2008 | See Source »

...talk about it, but will people actually want to play Spore? In June, Wright released the game's creature-design module as a free download. He thought he might see a million designs by the end of the year. Instead, he got a million in the first week. "Eighteen days after we released it, we'd exceeded the number of known species on Earth," he says. "I thought that was a nice metric." Wright also discovered that he'd inadvertently created a new art form: Spore-nography. People were using Spore to create creatures that looked like, well, genitals...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Spore: The Sims Plays God | 9/4/2008 | See Source »

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