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...reference to Hurricane Katrina as "the largest natural disaster in our nation's history": Experts agree that the destruction following the hurricane was caused by the collapse of the federally built and controlled levee system, which failed when confronted with the precise circumstance it was supposed to protect against. The devastation in the wake of Katrina was not a natural disaster; it was a man-made one. Claudia J. D'Aquin New Orleans...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Inbox | 12/28/2009 | See Source »

...hope that those with an overabundance of "things" will recognize that because of a pervasive sense of entitlement, many have lost all they worked for. Maybe as a nation we will develop a conscience and realize the harm we've done...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Inbox | 12/28/2009 | See Source »

Adam Ferguson's photography from Afghanistan brought it all back home. Medevacs, sentries monitoring the perimeter, soldiers shaving with whatever was available--Vietnam all over again. I hope our nation's decision makers review his work...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Inbox | 12/28/2009 | See Source »

...then the huge West African country, which is sharply divided between Muslims and Christians, may indeed have become a new recruiting ground for the cause of Osama bin Laden - a situation Western officials have been concerned about for some time. Furthermore, the oil-rich yet impoverished sub-Saharan African nation sits on a religious fault line, its 150 million people split almost evenly between Muslims in the north and Christians in the south. Bin Laden is widely admired in the arid, Muslim north. It has become fashionable for some Muslims to name their sons after him, while his picture adorns...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Detroit Terrorism Suspect: The Nigeria Connection | 12/26/2009 | See Source »

...course, in an impoverished nation where aid organizations provide food aid to some six million people, the Western notion of a gift-giving holiday does not translate very well, particularly after Kim Jong Il's regime effectively stripped most of the nation of any personal savings three weeks ago. Each year underground worshippers in North Korea receive an array of presents from the outside world, including foreign-made clothes and candy, smuggled in by defectors like Jeong...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: How Christmas Is (Not) Celebrated in North Korea | 12/24/2009 | See Source »

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