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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...parents are of a certain age, then you may understand the unique terror of suddenly drawing a blank - that unexpected moment when you can't remember the name of a lifelong friend or what you had for lunch that day. You wonder, anxiously, Have I stepped down the long, slow, inexorable road to losing my mind...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Can Gaming Slow Mental Decline in the Elderly? | 7/11/2009 | See Source »

...Change may be slow to come, but in Egypt some activists are encouraged by the small signs of progress. "We can't change the culture or the people in one day," says ECWR's Hassan. "But we are trying to do a lot of things ... We try to make changes with the government first, and then the people...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: In Egypt, Invoking Islam to Combat Sexual Harassment | 7/10/2009 | See Source »

Then there's the nature of the attacks: crude and essentially harmless. Cyberexperts call them denial-of-service (DOS) attacks, because they do no more harm than slow down or temporarily shut down networks. No sensitive government network was affected: the hackers (or lone hacker, since this could easily be the work of one person) only went after unrestricted, so-called public-facing sites. The assumption among some cyberexperts is that such unsophisticated attacks must come from an unsophisticated source...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Is North Korea Behind the Cyberattacks? | 7/10/2009 | See Source »

...dead and more than 1,000 injured, but by the week's end Urumqi was lumbering towards normalcy. Markets and grocery stores reopened, allowing residents to catch up on days of missed shopping. Traffic resumed through most of the city, though it was still blocked on occasion by slow-moving patrols of security vehicles. Convoys of armored personnel carriers and trucks loaded with rifle-bearing members of the People's Armed Police have driven throughout the city over the past three days, usually accompanied by a sound truck broadcasting speeches from local party leaders. (See pictures of the unrest...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Quiet Returns to Urumqi, but Tensions Remain | 7/10/2009 | See Source »

...expansions of government don't prove as popular - or successful - as Democrats hope. Maybe then she will have picked the right time to declare in her resignation speech, "I've never believed that I, nor anyone else, needs a title" to be effective. In fact, a title might slow you down if your message is that our nation's leaders are so deeply and abidingly inadequate that the only appropriate attitude toward them is scorn...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Outsider: Where Is Sarah Palin Going Next? | 7/9/2009 | See Source »

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