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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...your kids want to paint their bedrooms, as a favor...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Randy Pausch — Life Teacher | 7/25/2008 | See Source »

...While politicians bickered, however, the German people had long ago made their choice - one poll showed that 60% were in favor of Obama speaking at the Brandenburg Gate. And if Germans had a say in the U.S. election, 74% would choose Obama...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Berlin Awaits the 'Next JFK' | 7/23/2008 | See Source »

...while Obama said that a nuclear Iran would be "game-changing," and that he wouldn't take any option off the table to prevent that from happening, he stopped short of saying that he's in favor of the United States using force to stop the Iranians - which is what many Israelis yearn to hear. And the presumptive Democratic nominee also met with Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas in Ramallah - a trip that Republican nominee-to-be John McCain did not make when he was in Israel a few months...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Obama Treads Lightly in Israel | 7/23/2008 | See Source »

...would be less vulnerable to attack. If protecting silos is the real aim of SDI, asked Stanford Physicist Sidney Drell, why has the Administration dropped all funding for the one defensive system now known to be an effective terminal defense: nuclear-tipped interceptor missiles? Though he personally does not favor an active missile defense, Drell questioned the logic of diverting money from available off-the-shelf technology and using it to chase Reagan's dream of a multilayered shield against all Soviet missiles. Protecting specific targets, be they cities or silos, is not a new idea. Every President from Eisenhower...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: STRATEGIC QUESTIONS | 7/21/2008 | See Source »

...someone, 'It's all right for you to, whatever way you choose to, dispose of this human life, and for whatever reason'? And I just don't think we're finished with this problem at all.'' As the President well knows, the majority of the Justices who voted in favor of each ruling are age 77 or older. Their decisions were obviously not the final word on these difficult issues...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ABORTION'S SHRINKING MAJORITY | 7/21/2008 | See Source »

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