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...Police” by Radiohead: “We’ve given all we can but we’re still on the payroll.” People protest greed and human rights violations while still wearing the clothes, buying the soft drinks and driving the cars that fuel the system they are protesting. International boycotts, the only real weapon against transnational corporations worth billions of dollars, may be the next step in keeping tabs on corporate abuses. Coke may not be to our generation what California table grapes were to our parents’, but at least it?...

Author: By Joe Flood, | Title: One Coke Over the Line | 1/23/2004 | See Source »

...Codices, for the town in southern Egypt near the site of their discovery, the library consists of twelve 4th century papyrus books containing texts that are thought to have been translated from the original Greek into Egypt's ancient Coptic language ... The Nag Hammadi texts are already adding new fuel to a long-standing debate over the relationship between Gnosticism and early Christianity. Scholars have long believed that some New Testament passages attack incipient forms of Gnosticism. The traditional explanation is that Gnosticism matured after the birth of Christianity and became its archenemy ... It was largely the threat posed...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters | 1/19/2004 | See Source »

...with a mission--even if it was long shrouded in obscurity. Some 30 years ago, he allegedly stole blueprints for enriching uranium from the top-secret Dutch lab where he worked. For decades, his team in Pakistan labored behind heavily guarded walls to produce enough of the fuel to make A-bombs. In 1998 he watched proudly as Pakistan detonated its first nuclear devices beneath the scorched desert hills of Baluchistan, shocking an unsuspecting world. A public hero at last to exultant countrymen, he was hailed throughout the Muslim world as the "father of the Islamic Bomb...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Inside The A-Bomb Bazaar | 1/19/2004 | See Source »

...York Times report. The U.S. thinks oil-rich Libya first began funding Pakistan's nuclear development in the 1970s and periodically supplied raw uranium. Washington officials say Gaddafi was eventually rewarded with Pakistan's centrifuge designs and secret supplies of essential materiel that helped Libya close in on nuclear-fuel production...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Inside The A-Bomb Bazaar | 1/19/2004 | See Source »

SCIENCE OF LUST: How a host of biochemicals fuel the sex drive...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Table of Contents: Jan. 19, 2004 | 1/19/2004 | See Source »

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