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...synagogue exhibit is a metaphor for everything that is special about the National Museum in Damascus, Syria. It's supposed to be one of the facility's most famous displays, and yet it isn't signposted. Locating it will tax your orienteering skills to their limit - unless, on your quest through the galleries, you happen to glimpse the attendant Abu Mustapha, which we were lucky enough to do. He will lead you down obscure corridors to an unlabeled door and push it open to reveal a 1,750-year-old Jewish house of worship, painstakingly transported, in its entirety, from...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Damascene Confusion | 9/20/2007 | See Source »

...claim to them that others will recognize. Under the provisions of the U.N. Convention on the Law of the Sea (UNCLOS), a country has exclusive economic rights to the sea's resources within 200 nautical miles (230 miles, 370 km) of its coast. The treaty provides for extending that limit up to 350 nautical miles if a country can prove that its continental shelf extends from the coastline beyond the current limit. That explains the rush by Russia, Denmark and Canada to try to use the murky form of the underwater Lomonosov Ridge to expand the territory they control...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Fight for the Top of the World | 9/19/2007 | See Source »

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Author: /time Magazine | Title: What Homeowners Can Do | 9/13/2007 | See Source »

...variety of common food dyes and the preservative sodium benzoate--an ingredient in many soft drinks, fruit juices and salad dressings--do cause some kids to become measurably more hyperactive and distractible. The findings prompted Britain's Food Standards Agency to issue an immediate advisory to parents to limit their children's intake of additives if they notice an effect on behavior. In the U.S., there hasn't been a similar response, but doctors say it makes sense for parents to be on the alert...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Health: Hyper Kids? Check Their Diet | 9/13/2007 | See Source »

Gupta said, "Scientists have yet to document a definite, long-term negative effect of pesticides on our bodies." Pesticides are poisons designed to kill living things. It is because pesticides are harmful that the EPA and USDA have set limits on pesticide residues. These limits assume that everyone eats an average diet. If you eat more than the average amount of any one food, you exceed the safe limit. Don Steinke, VANCOUVER, WASH...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: An Abiding Anguish | 9/12/2007 | See Source »

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