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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...deaths of an estimated 78 million to 95 million people, uniformed and civilian. The world wars were the hideous expression of what happens when the human tendency toward conflict hooks up with the violent possibilities of the industrial age. The version of this story we are most familiar with is the Nazi death machinery, and we are often tempted to think that if Hitler had not happened, we would never have encountered assembly-line murder. (See TIME's photo-essay "Fun with Photoshop: Obama's Other Awards...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Want Peace? Give a Nuke the Nobel | 10/11/2009 | See Source »

...downplays shock and emphasizes suspense: a shadow creeping across a wall or the ripple of an unseen form under the bedsheets. The gore scenes in splatter movies carry a sadistic punch, but those are outside most moviegoers' experience. What Peli is interested in is dread, a feeling everyone is familiar with. (Will I lose my job? Has she found someone else? Why hasn't our kid come home yet? What's that strange rash?) Movies take that anxiety, crystallize it and, because fiction demands an ending, resolve it. The threat is provided, the fear made flesh, the monster confronted...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Paranormal Activity: A Horror Phenomenon | 10/10/2009 | See Source »

...Crocs' journey from hot to not is a familiar tale. Reinventing yourself from a one-hit wonder into a profitable, long-term company has to be one of the biggest challenges in business. Plenty fail. Remember Beanie Babies? LA Lights? Slap-on bracelets? Duerden, 68, who joined Crocs in March from the London-based brand consultancy Chrysalis Group, says he can help Crocs avoid disappearing altogether and turn the company into "a financially stable company and brand...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Can Crocs Be More Than a One-Hit Wonder? | 10/9/2009 | See Source »

Harnessing more powerful computers gives researchers “a sharper knife to a familiar problem,” said study leader Christopher A. Walsh, a Medical School pediatrics professor...

Author: By Linda Zhang, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Project to Look For Autism Gene | 10/9/2009 | See Source »

...worked so hard on [the Goldstone report]," says Mahmoud Abu Rahma, communications director for Al Mezan Center for Human Rights in Gaza, who says his organization provided the U.N. fact-finding team with hundreds of documents. "We were familiar with attempts by Israel to repress the report and ... we are familiar with the position of the United States, which is more or less in line with Israel ... But [this] came from the Palestinian Authority ... This is not acceptable." (See pictures of life under Hamas in Gaza...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Abbas' Move on War-Crimes Report: A Boost for Hamas | 10/6/2009 | See Source »

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