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We have not always been thanked for these efforts, and we have at times made mistakes. But more than any other nation, the United States of America has underwritten global security for over six decades - a time that, for all its problems, has seen walls come down, markets open, billions...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Full Transcript of Obama's Speech | 12/1/2009 | See Source »

The existence of marauding fat stealers was made public mid-November by General Felix Murga, head of the national police's criminal-investigation division, and Colonel Jorge Mejia, who leads the antikidnapping unit. The Murga-Mejia team said the gang may have killed dozens of people over the past three...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Peru's Fat-Stealing Gang: Crime or Cover-Up? | 12/1/2009 | See Source »

The signing of the Antarctic Treaty dedicated the continent entirely to research, from which have come a slew of discoveries about our planet. British scientists discovered the gaping, man-made hole in the ozone layer in the 1980s, while studies of Antarctic ice have contributed to our understanding of climate...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Antarctica | 12/1/2009 | See Source »

Italy's influential Northern League Party has stood out over the past decade for its particular knack in finding new (and not-so-new) ways of offending people based on country of origin and color of skin. In 2003, Umberto Bossi, founder of the party, which once espoused separatism, told...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: An Italian Town's White (No Foreigners) Christmas | 12/1/2009 | See Source »

Diplomatic efforts to free the five men will certainly be complicated by the diminished goodwill between London and Tehran, which has been stretched thin in recent months amid conflict over Iran's nuclear ambitions and disputed presidential election. With Britain often the preferred whipping boy of the Tehran regime's...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: British Captives in Iran Face Uncertain Fate | 12/1/2009 | See Source »

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