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TIME Jerusalem bureau chief Matt Rees has spent almost a decade living and working at the center of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. Here he recounts how the internal divisions within the two traumatized societies inspired his new book, "Cain's Field: Faith, Fratricide, and Fear in the Middle East":
Israeli officials insist they will not free Barghouti--even if he stays in the race and wins the presidency. Israeli Police Minister Tzahi Hanegbi said last week that Barghouti would remain in jail "for 100 years." But agents in the Shin Bet, Israel's domestic security service, tell TIME they...
If the so-called weak nuclear interaction were a tiny bit stronger or weaker than it is, for example, stars wouldn't blow up in the mammoth supernovas that spread elements like carbon and oxygen out into space--and without those elements, there would be no water and no organic...
In fact, lots of astrophysicists think the anthropic issue, rather than signaling a problem with modern science, points toward a deeper understanding of the universe. Rees likes to use our solar system as an analogy. Says Rees: "If Earth were the only planet in the universe, you'd be astonished...
And so, he contends, it might be with the cosmos. What we think of as the "universe," argues Rees, could well be just one of trillions of universes on an indescribably vaster stage called the multiverse. Each of those universes would have different laws and characteristics. Most of them are...