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Neither cold weather nor heavy rain could stop thousands upon thousands of people grimly walking to the funeral hall of the Troyekurovskoye cemetery on a distant edge of Moscow, to pay their last respects to journalist Anna Politkovskaya, assassinated last Saturday...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Burying a Russian Journalist | 10/11/2006 | See Source »

...treated in Jerusalem and still gets follow-up calls from his doctor. A farmer whose orange groves were shelled 12 times by Israelis after militants set off a rocket in a nearby field still talks fondly of his Israeli friends. But although he opposes the Palestinian militants and the rain of destruction they attract from the Israeli side, he says that "if I start complaining about the militants' setting off these rockets, they'll shoot...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Gaza: No Doves in Sight | 10/8/2006 | See Source »

...mastermind behind this war crime of a song, the most wretched living thing ever to use his voice or hands. The song is essentially Slim Thug’s “I Ain’t Heard Of That (Remix)” as performed by an asthmatic Rain Man. This song is so bad that you can actually hear Ludacris sigh in between gimmicky half-rhymes about “how good you look in them jeans.” What makes this failure even more of a shame is that there are a few decent songs...

Author: By J. samuel Abbott, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: CD Review: Ludacris, "Release Therapy" | 10/5/2006 | See Source »

Refusing to be derailed by either rain or standardized testing, the No. 3 Harvard co-ed and women’s sailing teams took to the waters this weekend with a vengeance, competing in no less that five regattas. Missing senior captain Christina Dahlman due to the LSAT exam, the women’s team continued its assault on college sailing with a victory in Boston University’s Regis Bowl. Consistency and depth carried the day as the Harvard women placed second in both the A and B-divisions to capture the overall title. Sophomore skipper Roberta Steele...

Author: By Tyler D. Sipprelle, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Women Cruise to Victory in Regis Bowl | 10/3/2006 | See Source »

...cities struggling to meet pollution standards. Environmental controls on electric plants have cut emissions of six principal air pollutants by half since 1970, despite a 42% increase in energy consumption. But even with mandated controls, old-fashioned pulverized- coal plants still spew nitrogen oxide and sulfur dioxide (think acid rain) as well as toxic mercury. Carbon dioxide emissions, blamed for global warming, would soar. Shareholder activists are increasingly aggressive about demanding an accounting when companies like TXU, which had 2005 earnings of $1.7 billion, stick to old coal methods. "TXU," says Leslie Lowe, program director of the Interfaith Center...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Is Coal Golden? | 10/2/2006 | See Source »

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