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...South Africa were telephoned at home and told not to go to work the next day. A State Department official refused to explain the warning, but a Western intelligence officer in Africa told TIME the alarm was raised after a phone call from an al-Qaeda operative to a number in Cape Town was intercepted - a call in which an attack on U.S. government buildings in South Africa was discussed. No attack took place, and after three days, the embassy in Pretoria and three consulates reopened. But with South Africa expecting half a million fans for the soccer World...
Aside from regular academic classes and sessions with staff therapists, kids participate in simple exercise routines like walking 10,000 steps (5 miles) each day. The school's weight-loss program was designed by Northwestern University Medical Center professor Daniel Kirschenbaum, who used to run a number of clinical obesity programs in Chicago-area hospitals. Students are served three perfectly proportioned meals a day and are asked to note everything they eat in a journal. Calorie and fat counts are displayed on a whiteboard in Wellspring's cafeteria, making it easy for kids to copy them down. The diet, which...
...that I had shrink-wrapped and cooked in tepid water for an inordinate amount of time: eight hours for a chicken breast, 24 hours for a steak, 36 hours for short ribs that came out rare. Although this culinary method may sound fit for a survival camp, a growing number of foodies are embracing sous vide, French for "under vacuum," as the ideal way to slowly cook meat in its own juices. (Watch TIME's video "Sous Vide: Your Food Takes a Bath...
...Democratic Senator Evan Bayh announced on Feb. 15 that he would not run for re-election this November. The popular centrist and former Hoosier State governor blamed increased partisanship, saying plainly, "I do not love Congress." Bayh's retirement, which caught his party's leaders by surprise, brings the number of open seats in the upper chamber to 11--five Democratic and six Republican...
Georgia state authorities have ordered an investigation into 191 public elementary and middle schools--more than half of them in Atlanta--after a Feb. 10 audit found that an unusually high number of wrong answers on students' standardized tests had been erased and replaced with the correct ones. Of those schools, almost two dozen had suspicious erasure patterns on more than 50% of classroom tests, suggesting an orchestrated attempt to raise scores and improve school standing under the No Child Left Behind Act. Inquiries will be handled by individual school districts, raising fears that those investigating the problem...