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...find TIME correspondent Elaine Shannon covering the ever changing, ever dangerous international narcotics trade from the safety of her Washington office. For this week's story on the growing influence and sophistication of Mexican cartels, Shannon traveled to one of the front lines of the war on drugs: the U.S.-Mexico border town of El Paso, Texas, which has become a prime gateway for drug smugglers. Thanks to an alliance between the Cali cartel of Colombia and alleged Mexican drug lord Amado Carillo Fuentes, Shannon says, "60% of the cocaine shipped to the U.S. now passes through Mexico. In this...
...courses at Converse and receive their military training at a site other than the Citadel. State officials had approached the college after courts had ruled that the Citadel had until August to either admit women to its cadet corps or establish a separate but equal program elsewhere. Lawyers for Shannon Faulkner, whose legal battle to be admitted into the state-run Citadel prompted the arrangement, said the program is not an acceptable substitute: "For women to be leaders of men, they can't learn such skills in the absence of men on the powder-puff campus of Converse." TIME Pentagon...
These doubts only increased in the wake of John Salvi's horrendous killing of Planned Parenthood receptionist Shannon Lowney (which took place at the very same clinic in front of which we prayed this weekend). I came to view the protests as counter-productive and even a bit intrusive. As we walked over to the clinic, passing an intimidating group of angry pro-choicers, I became even more nervous and confused. I leaned over and asked my roommate, a fellow protester, "Do we really have the right to be doing this...
...calculations, investigators on the scene have felt their grief turn to anger and grim resolve. "I'm not too old for this one," says a veteran of the World Trade Center investigation. "I'm not going to retire until we put these people away." --Reported by Nancy Harbert/Kingman, Elaine Shannon, Mark Thompson and Douglas Waller/Washington
...federal appeals court handed Shannon Faulkner another victory in her fight to be admitted as a cadet at South Carolina's Citadel. Ruling that keeping Faulkner out violates equal-protection guarantees, the court ordered the school to let her in or come up with an alternative plan...