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...either. Getting nowhere (fast, of course), I do what every self-disrespecting male would do. I lie. I call myself a rich lawyer and sit down with "Sugarmuffin," the prettiest of my seven dates. Sadly, her own job as a legal secretary throws up too many unanswerable questions about mine. Saved by the bell, I shuffle off and become a postman for a final three minutes with "Wild Cat." She didn't deliver, either. Deciding that speed dating is nothing more than a novel way to offload three minutes of verbal garbage, I move on to salsa dancing. But after...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Brief Encounters | 2/2/2003 | See Source »

...over, even as the country prepares to do battle with Iraq. Indeed, the past few days have highlighted just how far the U.S. remains from bringing order to Afghanistan. On Jan. 31, 18 people died a few kilometers outside Kandahar when a bus hit a land mine apparently planted by antigovernment extremists. The previous day, police in Kabul arrested three al-Qaeda suspects who allegedly planned a series of car bombings against international peacekeeping forces. Adding to the sense of gloom, a U.S. Army MH?60 Black Hawk helicopter crashed last week?apparently accidentally?during a nighttime training mission...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: What About the Other War? | 2/2/2003 | See Source »

...bumpier than the hundreds of dirt paths snaking across the grassy valleys. No road signs and few inhabitants outside the capital mean reliance on other markers. "It's best to follow the telephone lines," our driver says. "They always go someplace"--in our case, straight into a big gold mine where giant earth-digging machines belch fumes and wildcatters pan in acrid ditches. (Mining is Mongolia's most valuable industry, though most Mongolians work in agriculture. Pollution is a problem around Ulan Bator, especially from the burning of soft coal in power plants...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Mongol Invasion | 1/27/2003 | See Source »

...from human clones and designer babies to biowarfare and genetically modified corn. Will millions of other life forms go extinct before we have a chance to count them, as E.O. Wilson fears? Will artificially intelligent robots inherit the earth, as Ray Kurzweil predicts? And if genetics is a gold mine, as Wall Street promised, where is all the gold...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Next Stop: The Future of Life | 1/20/2003 | See Source »

...Mine owner Wang, who inherited the business from his father, insists he's not to blame for the locals' travails. "The houses in the town are cracking because they're old," he says, not because of his mining operation. The complaints, he adds, "have passed the limit of my forbearance." Nonetheless, Wang says he's willing to pay damages "because the county government is determined to settle this quarrel." So far, the petitioners have received none of the cash they've been told to expect...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Blow Your House Down | 1/20/2003 | See Source »

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