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...devices are what we have today instead of Etch A Sketches and Erector Sets and Morse-code telegraph kits. Adults of my parents' generation did not bicycle, roller-skate, or play army; adults today spend whole weekends mountain-biking, snowboarding, and dressing up in camouflage gear to fire paint balls at each other...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Boomers: Older and Maybe, Finally Wiser | 8/5/2009 | See Source »

...turf. The steady stream of Western officials and journalists traveling to Damascus to meet with Hamas leaders is a sure sign that the U.S.-led boycott of the organization has failed to weaken its influence - and, of course, when the Israelis want to discuss a cease-fire or a prisoner exchange, it is with Hamas that they're forced to deal, albeit via Egyptian mediators. The fast-emerging conventional wisdom is that no peace agreement between Israel and the Palestinians is possible without the consent of Hamas, which is why Western and Arab governments have set much store by Egypt...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Fatah Conference Aims to Boost Its Radical Credentials | 8/4/2009 | See Source »

...couldn’t figure out why she was calling me, and I couldn’t think of any bad reasons,” he said. “I figured I have tenure; they can’t really fire...

Author: By Bonnie J. Kavoussi, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: King, Kirschner Named University Professors | 8/3/2009 | See Source »

...August, the Innocence Project of Texas plans to unveil a detailed study focusing primarily on the extensive work of one Texas dog handler whose use of scent-ID techniques is under fire in the federal courts. At the heart of the study is the work of Deputy Keith Pikett, a canine officer with the Fort Bend County Sheriff's Office, just southwest of Houston. The first case studied involves Calvin Lee Miller, who was charged with robbery and sexual assault after Pikett's bloodhounds alerted police to a scent on sheets that Pikett said matched a scent swipe from Miller...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Dogs and the Scent of a Crime: Science or Shaky Evidence? | 8/3/2009 | See Source »

Israeli police launched a citywide manhunt through Tel Aviv for the masked, black-clad gunman who opened fire with a pistol at a gay youth club on Saturday night, Aug. 1, killing two and wounding 15 more. While the authorities have been careful not to speculate on a motive for the crime, the city's stunned gay community was not hesitant about assigning blame for the atmosphere they believe was conducive to the crime. Pointing to Orthodox Jewish gay-bashers, gay activists say the shots fired in the club for teenagers - the most serious in a series of verbal...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Gay vs. Orthodox: A Deadly Turn in Israel's Culture War? | 8/3/2009 | See Source »

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