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...English seats north of Sheffield, and none in major cities like Manchester and Leeds. The party is notably floundering among women, professionals and young people. Maybe its strength in local government - an important feeder for national politics - and its 36 new seats won in May's general election can rev up momentum. But the way parliamentary constituencies are drawn, and the mechanics of the first-past-the-post voting system, mean the Tories have to outpoll Labour nationally by at least 10% to take a bare majority in Parliament. ? THEY HAVEN'T GOT THE VISION THING. Aside from turfing...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Ready for Prime Time? | 10/9/2005 | See Source »

...young lawyer, she also represented Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., visiting the civil rights leader in jail and arguing for his freedom to protest...

Author: By Vivek Viswanathan, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Civil Rights Attorney Dies | 10/5/2005 | See Source »

...admits he still notices handsome men and says, as though he had an internal Geiger counter, "My attractions are probably about 1% of what they used to be." But the idea that liberals and gay activists are attacking Christian strugglers like Thompson has inspirited and unified social conservatives. The Rev. Jerry Falwell spoke at this year's Exodus conference for the first time, and others have begun to agitate for "equal access" for ex-gays in schools...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Battle Over Gay Teens | 10/2/2005 | See Source »

...that in Britain alone there are 55 million mobile users. "Even if you get 10-15% penetration, that's big bucks," he says. And he predicts that by 2012 some 256 million mobile-TV handsets will be shipped, up from essentially zero this year. Traditional broadcasters seem eager to rev up this new way of reaching viewers, in part because they can do it over the normal broadcast airwaves they already control rather than over mobile networks. The O2 trial, for example, taps into TV towers owned by Arqiva that emit a signal picked up by the Nokia handset...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Changing Channels | 9/25/2005 | See Source »

...engine sputtered once, twice; the pilot then tried to rev up again, resulting in engine sputters three, four. When a third attempt left us as grounded as before, a stewardess announced that she was very sorry, that the plane would have to be taken in for repairs. The mutterings that went around the cabin pretty much reflected my own sentiments, which, to be perfectly dramatic, were something along these lines: We could have all died...

Author: By N. KATHY Lin, | Title: Catching the Jitter Fly | 9/12/2005 | See Source »

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