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...Security services are wary of employing anyone with "excessive habits," says the official. This could be bad news for Bond, whose sexual appetites clearly register on the high end of the scale. Perhaps he should reconsider that job move...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: British Spies: Licensed to Be Gay | 8/19/2008 | See Source »

...Still, property developers feeling the pain would do well to take the long view. "We've seen falls of this scale many times before," says Davidson, recalling "big crashes in [City] rents in the early '90s and around the turn of this decade." Further proof of property's fast-changing fortunes: when the Wall Street crash wiped out demand for space in a newly built Empire State Building in the '30s, locals dubbed the iconic skyscraper the "Empty State Building." London developers can be forgiven for aiming high...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Renters' Market in London | 8/18/2008 | See Source »

...disease-specific iPS lines will soon be deposited in the new HSCI iPS Core Facility at Harvard-affiliated Mass. General Hospital to be produced at a larger scale for distribution among the scientific community...

Author: By June Q. Wu, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Harvard Researchers Create Disease-Specific Cell Lines | 8/18/2008 | See Source »

...dropping him from first to eighth place. On Sunday, Emmons closed in on redemption. Once again, he entered the last shot of the 50-m Three Position (standing, kneeling, lying down) event with what seemed like an insurmountable lead. A minimum score of 6.7, on a 10.9-point accuracy scale, would have won him the gold. Nobody had scored below...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Coping with a Crap Shoot | 8/18/2008 | See Source »

...take on the country's justice system, just as the international community has sent soldiers to mentor the police and army. "Good policing needs a good judicial system," says Cone. "I think that a similar effort to the police effort needs to be launched on a similar scope and scale to address the justice issues. We have some real problems with corruption in the prisons here. There are 10 links between arrest and putting someone in jail. The police own the first four links in the process, but if you fix the first four links without addressing the next...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Afghanistan's Epidemic of Child Rape | 8/17/2008 | See Source »

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