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...then they left. They patrol in helicopters, but you can't catch anyone from a helicopter. You have to get out." Down the road from the barbed-wire-fenced police compound, the town's main thoroughfares are blackened with the remains of burnt tires and littered with broken glass and rocks the size of tennis balls. In the jail at the back of the station are more than 50 young men arrested for violent attacks or protests. "We have to let them out in 72 hours," says Belo. "I think there will be more trouble...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Streets of Shame | 8/10/2007 | See Source »

...days after the Interstate 35W bridge collapse claimed the lives of at least five people and injured more than 100, rescue divers are taking every precaution to make sure they don't join the tally of victims of the greatest disaster in modern Minnesota history. Shattered glass, gasoline from vehicles, and concrete and reinforcement bars from the fallen bridge provide a host of hazards for divers. And with visibility extending no more than six inches at times, the chances of divers' snagging and skewering themselves on the wreckage is high. On Saturday, rain was added...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Dangers of Disaster Diving | 8/4/2007 | See Source »

...find his lone ally, government agent Nicky Parsons (Julia Stiles) before she's caught and killed by rival hitman Dash (Joey Ansah). While a police posse is chasing Bourne, he's hopscotching across rooftops, wrapping a sheet around his hand to vault over a wall with shards of glass on it, and somehow keeping track of the elusive Nicky in a big, unfamiliar city. Maybe our super-spy's brain, earlier rewired by The Company, has been accessorized with a Google Earth chip implant...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Bourne Ultimatum: A Macho Fantasy | 8/2/2007 | See Source »

Whatever it was that went "poof" at an entrance to the Sears outlet in the Plaza del Valle Mall in Oaxaca City was certainly not big enough to be called a "bomb." It did damage to the door and a couple of glass panes but an "explosive artifact" was the most threatening term local law enforcement were willing use to describe it. Sears and the 116 other stores in the mall quickly reopened. And yet, the Mexican Army was out in force outside the department store all day, looking stern and watchful yet all the while saying that there...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Mexico's State of Discontent | 8/2/2007 | See Source »

...Quite the opposite; they were down-right chummy. Bush played the cut-up and Brown came out of his shell. The two chuckled over an inside joke about Brown's toothpaste. Bush said Brown wasn't the "dour Scotsman" he'd read about in the press. "He's a glass half full guy, not a glass half empty guy," said Bush...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Brown and Bush: Looking for Daylight | 7/30/2007 | See Source »

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