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...emerging red flags. As a foreign guest, I was given the one bed in the entire house to sleep in. Family members young and old slept shoulder to shoulder, huddled in blankets on the floor. Although there was little food to share, meat was always heaped onto my section of the communal plate. The ceremony was interrupted by rolling blackouts. Like most other things in Yemen, the guests explained, electric service has worsened this year. Much of the country is increasingly lawless and desperately poor; reserves of water, oil and cash are running dry. The groom's brother Bandar...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Wedding in the Town of Al-Qaeda | 2/1/2010 | See Source »

...freedom to selectively plug in and digest all this information. Club groups will also benefit because instead of just targeting their list-serve members, they will be able to present detailed information to the entire Harvard community. With the ability to plan and update their events-calendar section for the full year, they won’t be hassled with continuously sending multiple reminders for each event throughout the year...

Author: By Hemi H. Gandhi | Title: Farewell to Spam | 2/1/2010 | See Source »

Milan was my fairy godmother. She taught me independence, resourcefulness, and how to not feel inferior to the person in my section who won Jeopardy at age 15, is a concertizing pianist, and speaks seven languages. So, countless irreplaceable and life-changing experiences later, I decided that I was ready to be a college student again...

Author: By Maya E. Shwayder | Title: A Separate Year | 1/28/2010 | See Source »

...billion in the third quarter of last year. This has angered the Belgian unions, which are taking a stand against what they see as an affront to the country's beer-making tradition. "This is the ugly face of capitalism," says Roger Van Vlasselaer, who heads the Flemish Brabant section of the ABVV-FGTB, Belgium's main union. "AB InBev are just thinking of their bottom line for shareholders, regardless of the social cost. There is no reason at all to fire people...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Running Dry: Belgium's Looming Beer Crisis | 1/21/2010 | See Source »

...least. The controversy stems from a single paragraph in Chapter 10 of the report's second section, which claimed that glaciers in the Himalayas were receding faster than in any other part of the world, and that "if the present rate continues, the likelihood of them disappearing by the year 2035 or perhaps sooner is very high if the Earth keeps warming at its current rate." Glaciologists have been doubtful of that 2035 date since the report came out. Although they are melting, there are tens of thousands of Himalayan glaciers, and it's hard to imagine them all disappearing...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Himalayan Melting: How a Climate Panel Got It Wrong | 1/21/2010 | See Source »

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