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...issues. The longest a president can serve is a tiny fraction of the [average Supreme Court justice's tenure]. The amount of power that the Supreme Court has is much greater, for better or for worse. We're one vote away from flip-flopping on the law of the land on issue after issue...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Outgoing ACLU President Nadine Strossen | 10/28/2008 | See Source »

Cougars, tigers, and killers, oh my! What do you get when you strand a band in the desert with a couple of amps, some lighting rigs, and a few carnivorous land animals? The Killers’ latest video for their new single “Human,” of course. Despite the rather random concept of this short (a mix of Discovery Channel and Siegfried and Roy), the stark setting and lack of narrative definitely highlights their most obvious talent—live performance. And those who have followed this group since their formative days of indie hair...

Author: By Eunice Y. Kim, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: POPSCREEN: The Killers | 10/24/2008 | See Source »

Armed with a host of colorful land distribution charts and photographs from his research, Wilcove discussed the biodiversity-friendly methods of pastoralism and planned burning in Kenya, and contrasted them with the disastrous effects of oil palm cultivation in Borneo...

Author: By Evan T. R. Rosenman, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Princeton Professor Warns of Cultivation Threat | 10/24/2008 | See Source »

National Review •speculation that Obama "very possibly" would have been aborted if Roe v. Wade had been the law of the land in 1961 is raised by writer on Website...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Paul Slansky's Weekly Index of the News | 10/24/2008 | See Source »

France notched an important victory against the pirates who plague commercial shipping off the Horn of Africa, when it arrested nine of them at sea during a raid near the Gulf of Aden. But the roots of Somalia's piracy problem lie in the breakdown of state authority on land, which is why many questioned just how effective the French Naval action - or the NATO patrols due to begin in the coming days - will be in curbing the pirates. The nine nabbed by the French, after all, were stripped of their weapons and then handed over to the very Somali...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Will NATO Navies Stop Somali Pirates? | 10/24/2008 | See Source »

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