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...TIME's Jeffrey Ressner quizzed SARAH JESSICA PARKER (Carrie Bradshaw on TV's Sex and the City) on something that any celebrity--and especially she--really knows: shoes...
...told the CIA has a hit list of terrorist leaders whom the agency is authorized to kill. It's a strategy that even Jeffrey Smith, the former general counsel of the CIA, has frowned upon. "This ought to be a last resort for the United States," he said after the Predator attack in Yemen. And, Smith noted, "sometimes you get the wrong man. It also seems to legitimize assassination...putting at risk our own leaders and to some extent our own citizens...
...question, however, his choice to act alone when a cooperative alternative exists. The Global Fund to Fight AIDS, endorsed by U.N. Secretary General Kofi Annan and popularly publicized by the partnership of former Harvard professor Jeffrey Sachs and U2’s lead singer Bono, already has a framework for a similar initiative. This organization has the support and funding of 36 different nations. The United States was called upon to contribute $2.5 billion to the Fund, but to date has only pledged $500 million. Bush even opposed a bipartisan Senate bill in June that would have committed an additional...
...first Israeli in space, were lost Saturday when the space shuttle Columbia broke apart in the skies of Texas. The incident occurred at an altitude of some 200,000 feet, shortly after reentry and 15 minutes before Columbia had been scheduled to land at Cape Canaveral. TIME science correspondent Jeffrey Kluger explains some of the possible causes and consequences of the accident...
...Jeffrey Kluger: There are three possible scenarios that explain this event. The first, which I believe is the likeliest explanation, would be an aerodynamic structural breakup of the shuttle caused by it rolling at the wrong angle. Remember, after reentry, the shuttle is descending without power, which means astronauts at the controls can't compensate for a loss of attitude by using the engines, they can only do so using the flaps. And that's extremely hard. Astronauts describe piloting the shuttle on reentry as like trying to fly a brick with wings. It's very difficult to operate...