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...February 11, 2001: Palm Harbor, Florida A 14 year-old builds a bomb having a kill radius of 15 feet. The parents of another student who had received an e-mail detailing the bomber's plans alert the sheriff's deputies...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Fatal Shootings at Colleges and Schools | 4/16/2007 | See Source »

...next time you’re at the airport security checkpoint, your luggage may not be the only thing that gets X-rayed. As reported in a recent New York Times article, the SmartCheck body scanner, the newest innovation in transportation security, made its debut at the Sky Harbor International Airport in Phoenix earlier this year. The scanner can see under travelers’ clothes to detect if they are carrying anything dangerous on board. But before you freak out, you should know the facts. The SmartCheck scanner causes negligible harm and may greatly improve airport security...

Author: By Jimmy Y. Li | Title: This Time, X-Rays are OK | 4/11/2007 | See Source »

...hormone therapy encourages the clots that form around these plaques to rupture and cause heart attacks. Nonetheless, the latest study offers a backward sort of good news, suggesting that intense menopausal symptoms may be a kind of early warning system, since women who suffer the most also tend to harbor more risk factors for heart disease, from high blood pressure, high cholesterol and diabetes to excess weight. "If you have moderate to severe hot flashes, then that should be a signal to check your risk factors for heart disease," says Rossouw...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Hormone Therapy Redeemed | 4/5/2007 | See Source »

...million-dollar smile at a distance or in a newsreel, felt heartened. Winston Churchill said being with him was like "opening a bottle of champagne." Good vibes are not in themselves solutions to problems. But at the nadir of the Depression and in the aftermath of Pearl Harbor, Roosevelt conveyed the sense that solutions would be found...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Acting Like a President | 4/5/2007 | See Source »

...before it is climateproof, but so does most of the world. Japan has an impressive, long-standing system of flood control, including the so-called G-Cans project, a massive underground system in Tokyo that can pump 200 tons of water per second out of rivers and into the harbor before the city's streets flood. But former city officials acknowledge that Tokyo's system has reached its capacity. Since global warming is expected to bring Japan more frequent torrential rains, Tokyo will have to upgrade its drainage and sewage systems...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: On the Front Lines Of Climate Change | 3/29/2007 | See Source »

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