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Without the army, the Jewish settlements in Palestinian territory could not exist. The IDF guards the roads leading to the settlements. The senior army commanders consult on a weekly basis with the settlers' council on possible security risks coming from Palestinian militants. In Hebron, where over 500 troops protect the city's settler families, the boundaries between soldier and settler are even more blurred than elsewhere. Six settler families actually live inside a Hebron army outpost, and their illegal presence is tolerated. Officers routinely arrange for a settler to lecture troops on the significance of Hebron to Jewish history, advocating...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The West Bank: Mission Critical | 8/16/2007 | See Source »

While you aspire to your six-pack abs, your miracle diet, your glamorous life in rehab, my supermarket checkout time is spent in a world without pretense. It's a world where we good, simple men have to prepare for danger lurking from aliens, protect an Elvis who is reassuringly ALIVE! but still eating poorly, and be aware that Osama bin Laden and Saddam Hussein (also ALIVE!) are involved in a tumultuous, shaved-ape-adopting love affair in France. The Weekly World News fulfilled my reporter fantasies by ignoring the facts and my reader fantasies by doing it with very...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Requiem for Bat Boy | 8/16/2007 | See Source »

...came before State District Judge Jerome Winsberg earlier this week, believe the Manganos are responsible for the deaths, there is a growing consensus that blame for all post-Katrina woes lies at the feet of the federal government, which built the flood-control system that was supposed to protect South Louisiana's low-lying areas in the first place. The defense maintains that the Manganos thought it better to offer shelter to residents rather than put them through the trauma of evacuation, and that they were so confident that the nursing home was safe that they extended the offer...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Who's to Blame for a Katrina Tragedy? | 8/15/2007 | See Source »

...will work to protect the vision of Mustafa Kemal Ataturk [the staunchly secular founder of modern Turkey]," Gul said. "It is the duty of the president to protect democracy and secularism." Some liberal commentators are supporting his candidacy as a reproach to the military for intervening too vocally in May. But the hard-line secularist Republican People's Party, or CHP, reacted harshly. Its leader, Deniz Baykal, denounced his nomination as a threat to the "peace and stability of this country." He told a Turkish newspaper, "If Gul is elected, Turkey's political balances will change . Turkey will be transformed...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Back to the Brink in Turkey? | 8/14/2007 | See Source »

...number of cancers associated with HPV in men, including penile and anal cancer, is considered nearly on par with the incidence of cervical cancer in women. Doctors say that vaccinating boys and men (as is done in Europe and Australia) is an important next step. Not only can it protect them from disease, but as carriers of HPV, vaccination may also indirectly protect girls and women...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: HPV Vaccine: Best Taken Early | 8/13/2007 | See Source »

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