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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...hear women express frustration that there don't seem to be many real men anymore. Men express confusion that their efforts not to be domineering leave them disdained by those women. The irony is that many men today try to be the sensitive, nonabrasive types that the women's movement said women would want. But in fact, many women do not want these new men and are sometimes willing to saddle themselves with jerks just to avoid them...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Inbox | 11/9/2009 | See Source »

...fall of the Berlin wall caught the world by surprise. For months, East Germany's beleaguered communist rulers had tried in vain to silence a growing opposition movement and stem the tide of people pouring out of the country. On the night of Nov. 9, 1989, an East German official held a press conference to announce new government travel policies but inadvertently announced that crossings to the West would be opened "without delay." Within hours, thousands of East Berliners began lining up at checkpoints near the Wall. At first the border guards tried to check passports, but they quickly realized...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Reagan's Speech That Ended the Cold War | 11/9/2009 | See Source »

...destroy these elements and not let them use South Waziristan as a sanctuary from which to spread terrorism in the rest of Pakistan," says Rifaat Hussain, of Islamabad's Quaid-i-Azam University. "But for the TTP, it is a battle for survival. If they lose, the whole movement is finished...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Pakistan Doubles Down Against the Taliban | 11/9/2009 | See Source »

...that had images and text separately and 51% of sponsored links on search-engine pages. Ads that got a lot less attention included those that imposed text on top of images (people looked at just 35% of those) and ones that included animation (it might seem movement is attention-grabbing, but only 29% of these ads garnered a look...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Why We Look at Some Web Ads and Not Others | 11/8/2009 | See Source »

...Malley, however, should not be mistaken for a liberal member of the hierarchy. He is a conservative on matters of doctrine, and for the past few years, he has been the face of the church's opposition to Massachusetts' gay-marriage law. (See pictures of the gay-rights movement...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Priests Spar Over What It Means to Be Catholic | 11/8/2009 | See Source »

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