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...amazing Bolt can move at all come race-time. His pre-race diet would seem rather detrimental. On the day of the 100m, Bolt said he had only eaten two helpings of Chicken McNuggets all day. It's not a nutritionist's dream selection. But why mess with the routine? "My masseuse bought my nuggets, of course," says Bolt of his intake on Wednesday. "I'm serious. He bought my nuggets, because I didn't really want to go to the cafeteria. I came straight to the track and my masseuse again bought me more nuggets. And I just...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Bolt Keeps Electrifying Track | 8/20/2008 | See Source »

...both sides of the Atlantic, now, governments are castigating Russia and demanding that it make good on its promise to withdraw its forces from Georgia, but that apparent consensus can't hide the deep divisions within the Atlantic Alliance over how to respond to a resurgent Russia. "An uncoordinated mess," is how Robin Shepherd, head of the European program at Chatham House, the London-based think tank, described Europe's response to Russia's incursion into Georgia on Aug. 7. "There is complete disunity in the E.U." Not only is the Union's decision making structure inherently unwieldy, but there...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Wounded NATO Grapples with Russia | 8/19/2008 | See Source »

...life" but didn't get down in the weeds about when exactly that life started. McCain enjoys no such benefit of the doubt, and so he had to offer blunt reassurance. But his construction of human rights beginning "at the moment of conception," while theoretically clean, is a practical mess. It throws the entire weight of argument onto one side of the scale; a woman, whose womb and RNA are essential to the development of a fertilized egg, would be obliged to do nothing that could even inadvertently interfere with the progression from zygote to newborn. This would have, among...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: McCain and Obama on Abortion | 8/17/2008 | See Source »

...says, but the negative impact on investor confidence. He blames Russia. "We know what it is like to be part of the Soviet Union, and [we are] a people who love freedom," he says. "They are setting an example here in Georgia to the whole region: 'If you mess with us, this is what we can do to you.' " Still, says Amaglobeli, Georgia has made its own mistakes. "Through words and deeds, [we] have tremendously damaged relations with our neighbors. We have made mistakes. We have to act more prudently...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: On Scene: Georgia's Ravaged Capital | 8/12/2008 | See Source »

...Still, Moscow remains uncertain of its next step. "Should Russia confine its efforts to South Ossetia, it still might emerge out of this mess as the power who moved in to stop bloodshed," says Malashenko. "Should Russia move further into Georgia, it will be deemed the aggressor...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Moscow's Dangerous Game in Georgia | 8/10/2008 | See Source »

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