Word: newe
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...While some competitors remain cautious, Microsoft has pledged its full cooperation. If so, it could mark a new era as the company redirects its business strategy away from maintaining its crushing market dominance and toward something it had fought against for 10 years - greater cohesion with its rivals...
...until the 1970s, when Vietnam and Watergate sparked a revival of antigovernment conspiracy theories, that the word Roswell started perking ears. In 1975 officials from the Federal Aviation Administration and the North American Defense Command agreed to attend the world's first "serious" international UFO conference to hear new evidence, but after a self-proclaimed "abductee" reneged on his promise to take a polygraph test, the federal attendees left the gathering, skepticism intact. That didn't deter conference organizer Allen Hynek, founder of the Center for UFO Studies in Evanston, Ill., and a tireless campaigner to legitimize the field...
Most people regard watching television as a passive activity. You sit, you watch. Occasionally, you change the channel. But a new study reveals that even this passive diversion may lead to actively damaging effects, particularly when it comes to issues of race...
...people - and for standing against the prevailing tide, advising the President against sending more troops until the Afghan government cleaned up its act. General Stanley McChrystal deserves a Teddy as well, for seeing clearly the problems with the Afghan mission, reporting his misgivings honestly and then working with a new President to create a new campaign plan that, we must hope, will turn the tide...
...Such accusations against the government of Hugo Chávez are not new. The U.S. and Colombia have for years accused Chávez of consorting with narco-terrorists. Chávez, for his part, claims that the U.S. smuggles drugs to fund its espionage. Gonzalez added his own bit of politico-narco conspiracy theory, suggesting that his country's ousted President, Manuel Zelaya, was under investigation for possible involvement with cocaine shipments, echoing a charge of Zelaya's political opponents. When TIME questioned whether a Honduran head of state could really have had his hands in trafficking, Gonzalez nodded...