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3. On becoming inured to the desperation and fear of being a child soldier: As time passed, I learned that a body gets used to fear-I didn't shake so much and my stomach stayed still-but a mind doesn't. I thought about God often, and questions filled...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Sudanese Lost Boy, Found | 2/5/2009 | See Source »

Many other large company boards have abdicated their responsibilities to their shareholders as the firms that they were supposed to protect fell apart. It is remarkable that so few directors at other large companies have learned so little from these failures in governance. More large companies may fail as a...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Boards Refuse to Act Despite Poor Governance | 2/5/2009 | See Source »

In India, cows can't be exported for slaughter because orthodox Hindus revere them, but the animals are in great demand in mainly Muslim, meat-eating Bangladesh. An organized network of herders and trucks carries cows across the northern plains of India to cattle markets near the border, where they...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Great Divide | 2/5/2009 | See Source »

History not only gives cities their shape; it also molds their self-image. Since 1941, when London emerged from eight months of bombing with many of its landmarks pulverized but its resilience intact, the British capital has regarded itself as indomitable. But at 9 a.m. on a wintry Monday, a...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Moment: London | 2/5/2009 | See Source »

Have you learned anything new while exploring your ancestry? Jackie Lantry REHOBOTH, MASS.

Author: /time Magazine | Title: 10 Questions for Henry Louis Gates Jr. | 2/5/2009 | See Source »

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