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...Such socialization can require months of effort, and even if the process proves a success, the old gladiator may never be entirely tamed. It's still unwise, experts say, to place a former fighting dog in a home with other pets or crawling children. After all, they have been bred and raised and terrorized to kill four-legged creatures. Do the math: The sort of person who would be willing to make a pet of a rehabilitated fighting dog is, by nature, an animal lover. And animal lovers tend to have pets already. The supply of suitable homes - loving...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Can Attack Dogs Be Rehabilitated? | 12/7/2009 | See Source »

...makes them powerful. Kids, like adults, resist force-feeding. When a whole generation obsessed about Harry, parents everywhere were given a rich new repertoire of characters and plotlines with which to teach about loyalty, courage, humility and, Rowling's central message, the notion that love has ultimate power, even over death...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Gospel of Glee: Is It Anti-Christian? | 12/7/2009 | See Source »

That one, actually, wasn't even very subtle...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Gospel of Glee: Is It Anti-Christian? | 12/7/2009 | See Source »

...additional $30 billion a year for 30,000 more troops. The Pentagon says it's half that. But a new study by consulting firm Deloitte makes clear that fighting inside a landlocked country where the Taliban has shut down much of the meager road network has drastically inflated even routine costs. The average U.S. trooper in Afghanistan requires 22 gal. (83 L) of fuel a day--but the cost of buying a gallon of fuel and shipping it to the deepest corners of the country averages $45. That's nearly $1,000 a day per soldier...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Spotlight: Paying for the Afghan War | 12/7/2009 | See Source »

...even the most élite universities are struggling with the problem of anonymous gossip sites. Some sites are homegrown and deal only with one school. Others are sprawling entities, catering to hundreds of schools and offering features like search capability and, at one enterprising site, the option to vote on how truthful an anonymous post...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Colleges Fight Back Against Anonymous Gossip Sites | 12/7/2009 | See Source »

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