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...while she often wore indigenous fashions as a college student and criticized the Reagan Administration's involvement in Central America's conflicts, she is a social conservative, opposing abortion rights as well as gay civil unions and efforts to remove a clause in Costa Rica's constitution that makes Roman Catholicism the state religion. She's also earnestly pro-business, calling on Costa Rica to shoot for a Chilean level of development via increased free-trade accords and ramped-up export of goods like microchips...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Costa Rica's Generational and Gender Changes | 2/10/2010 | See Source »

...Minister's office, the municipality, and the vaunted Israel Antiquities Authority (IAA), which monitors all archaeological work in the country and which Elad helps finance. Elad's own funding comes through unnamed private donors. (Israeli newspapers have reported that a few Russian-Jewish oligarchs, including Chelsea Football Club owner Roman Abramovich, attended a 2005 Elad fundraiser.) The organization's aim is best expressed in a religious website's 2007 interview with development director Doron Speilman. He gestures toward Silwan, an Arab neighborhood that spills down from the Mount of Olives, and says: "Our goal is to turn all this land...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Archaeology in Jerusalem: Digging Up Trouble | 2/8/2010 | See Source »

...that happened was that the police arrested us," complains Jawan Siyam, a Silwan local. Elad was opening up a 650 yd.-long (600 m) drainage tunnel, running under Arab homes, that Elad claims dates back 2,000 years, and may have been used by Jewish rebels to escape a Roman siege. Civil rights groups last year got the Supreme Court to suspend the diggings. In its ruling, the court said that the local authorities had failed to obtain consent from the owners of the houses marked for demolition...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Archaeology in Jerusalem: Digging Up Trouble | 2/8/2010 | See Source »

...become weak office coffees, and I had traded in cheap flights on Ryanair and my passport for a commute on the Green Line and a CharlieCard. I wasn’t sure how a month of memorizing insurance policy numbers and coding data would compare to strolling through Roman ruins and learning to make tortellini from scratch...

Author: By Elizabeth C. Pezza, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Clocking the Hours | 2/4/2010 | See Source »

...some 90 million people will watch the Indianapolis Colts play the New Orleans Saints in Super Bowl XLIV in Miami. Perhaps the Roman numerals are appropriate. Although football hasn't quite reached the bloodlust status achieved at the ancient Coliseum, the path to Super Bowl XLIV is strewn with the broken bodies and damaged brains that result when highly motivated, superbly conditioned athletes collide violently in pursuit of glory. The more we learn about the human cost of this quintessentially American sport, the more questions are being raised regarding the people who run it and play it. More than...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Problem with Football: How to Make It Safer | 1/28/2010 | See Source »

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