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Historically, humans get serious about avoiding disasters only after one has just smacked them across the face. Well, then, by that logic, 2006 should have been a breakthrough year for rational behavior. With the memory of 9/11, the worst terrorist attack in U.S. history, still fresh in their minds, Americans...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Why We Don't Prepare for Disaster | 8/20/2006 | See Source »

Now the choreography is reversed, and it is Hillary's time to take the lead. The Biotechnology Industry Organization learned that the hard way when it paid Bill's customary six-figure speaking fee to book him as the star attraction at its annual convention for 20,000 attendees. A...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Hillary: Love Her, Hate Her | 8/20/2006 | See Source »

Lt. Watada, 28, is from Honolulu and was part of a Stryker unit that deployed to Iraq on June 22 - without him. He joined the Army after Sept. 11 and initially served in South Korea, where he received stellar marks from his superiors. As recently as last summer he was...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Putting the Iraq War on Trial | 8/18/2006 | See Source »

The day I first learned of Chen Guangcheng was one of the first kind. Chen had beaten the odds. He'd grown up blind in a remote village in a country where people with disabilities aren't allowed to attend college. That meant three strikes against his ever amounting to...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letter from Beijing: A Legal Activist Goes on Trial | 8/18/2006 | See Source »

With his Vietnam epic Apocalypse Now due out in a DVD set this month and production of his next movie, Youth Without Youth, completed, Academy Award--winning director, vintner and hotelier Francis Ford Coppola talks with TIME's Rebecca Winters Keegan about why all war movies are antiwar movies, what...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: 10 Questions for Francis Ford Coppola | 8/14/2006 | See Source »

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