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...Hawaii and Barbados. To unwind one evening after inspecting a gas leak, the firemen watch outtakes from The Bravest, a TV show chronicling the lives of fire fighters with real footage from New York companies; they pause the tape every few minutes to honor the men they instinctively refer to as "missing...
...town. The attack was a dud; the rocket landed in an empty field. But with a range of 3 miles--much longer than the mortars Hamas currently fires at nearby Israeli settlements--the Qassam 1 would add a frightening new dimension to its campaign of violence. Israeli intelligence officials refer to the rocket as a "new Katyusha," potentially capable of spreading the same kind of chaos inside Israel that Hizballah used to provoke when it fired those Russian-made rockets from Lebanon...
...nationality growing up." She remembers one incident in middle school when she was asked to declare her nationality for her entry in a school yearbook. "The yearbook staff came to ask me what I wanted to be put down as. I said, 'I don't know. Does nationality refer to what you are racially, or is it where you were born? Or where you grew up? What is it?' And everyone's like, 'Well, we don't know.' So they just ended up putting Japanese/American." Now, Utada thinks of herself as something of a cultural ambassador for Japan. "I feel...
Some call it Ginger. Others refer to it as It. Some lucky enough to have seen it have hailed it as an invention that could have an impact on the world every bit as large as the car and the personal computer. Visit TIME.com to see a 3-D model, then tell us what you think. Will this revolutionize the way we move around town, or is this just a very cool and very expensive scooter? Go to time.com/segway...
...Sportswriters question whether it's still appropriate to call a missed goal a tragedy or refer to two teams going to battle against each other. And Oxford professor Jean Aitchison wonders whether the very word war has lost its meaning through overuse, speculating that "we are going to have to think up a new word...