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Popular stereotype doesn't always make room for the idea of violent girls, but they are there--and they are acting out. In 2003, according to the Centers for Disease Control, more than 40% of boys admitted to having carried a gun or a knife or been in at least one physical fight in the previous year. But the girls were not far behind, at 25%. And when the violence is girl-on-girl, it can get especially ugly. Deborah Prothrow-Stith, co-author of Sugar & Spice and No Longer Nice: How We Can Stop Girls' Violence and professor...
...Bruce Lee and James Bond, why shouldn't girls be equally juiced at the sight of a jumpsuited, sword-wielding Uma Thurman? ENTERTAINMENT WEEKLY (a sister publication of TIME), recently ran an online list of Hollywood's 15 best "Butt-Kicking Babes," from the pugilistic Hilary Swank to the gun-toting Charlie's Angels. A few of the stars were of older vintage, but most made their screen bones in the last generation...
...plants molokhiyya, a leafy vegetable Egyptians cook into a stew, on the east bank of the river near El Saff, 50 km south of Cairo. "If the Ethiopians ever tried to stop the Nile," Sorour says, only half joking as he fires off rounds from an imaginary machine gun, "Egyptians will attack them and kill all the Ethiopians." Such threats, as well as grinding poverty and civil wars in Ethiopia, Uganda and Sudan - whose capital is built where the Blue Nile meets the White - have stifled development along the upper river for decades. Dam and irrigation projects have been blocked...
...classified documents," says Joseph Persichini, head of the FBI's Washington field office. Feldstein denies that, saying he instead told the agents that he recalled seeing no plainly classified material among the yellowed pages, stained by rusty paper clips. "I was disappointed that there weren't any smoking-gun secret documents," says Feldstein. The lone once classified document he recalls seeing: Anderson's FBI file. The agents, Feldstein says, pressed him about whether any Anderson documents pertained to an ongoing espionage case against a pair of former employees of the American Israel Public Affairs Committee (AIPAC). But Feldstein says...
...between a festive 21-gun salute on the South Lawn and a well-choreographed working lunch for 200, complete with Nashville bluegrass band, President Bush plans to sit down with Chinese president Hu Jintao in the Oval Office to discuss international security issues. Topic A, White House aides say, will be Iran...