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...your team traveled to Beijing for exhibition games. Do you think the pollution there is going to affect the Olympics? -Ian Kachemov, Highland, Md.The pollution is pretty bad over there. I think it could really have an effect unless they clean it up. You could cut it with a knife...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Joe Torre in a New Uniform | 3/26/2008 | See Source »

...just tabloid talk. Prime Minister Gordon Brown, at his first press conference of 2008, said: "Kids are out of control ... They're roaming the streets. They're out late at night. There's an issue about gangs in Britain and an issue about gun crime as well as knife crime...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Britain's Mean Streets | 3/26/2008 | See Source »

...turned out, mother and baby lived. While it would be nice to say that this had something to do with Mrs. Nufer's constitution or her husband's skills with a knife, it was almost certainly because Mrs. Nufer's pregnancy was extrauterine - a freakishly rare form of gestation in which the baby grows outside the womb, in this case probably in the abdomen. Had the baby been inside the uterus, as normal, Mrs. Nufer would have bled to death when the uterine wall was breached. While some contest the accuracy of the story, Mrs. Nufer's is generally accepted...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Labor Market | 3/20/2008 | See Source »

...threatened a hostage with decapitation in 1994. That hostage survived, but Danny Pearl, the Wall Street Journal Pakistan correspondent whom Sheikh is charged with kidnapping in January 2002, did not. The video of Pearl's beheading can still be found on the Internet (though the identity of the actual knife wielder remains unknown). How does someone like Sheikh - "the kindest, most gentle person you could meet," according to his brother - turn terrorist...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Jihadi Next Door | 3/20/2008 | See Source »

...threatened a hostage with decapitation in 1994. That hostage survived, but Danny Pearl, the Wall Street Journal Pakistan correspondent whom Sheikh is charged with kidnapping in January 2002, did not. The video of Pearl's beheading can still be found on the Internet (though the identity of the actual knife wielder remains unknown). How does someone like Sheikh--"the kindest, most gentle person you could meet," according to his brother--turn terrorist...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Jihadi Next Door | 3/20/2008 | See Source »

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