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Taliban insurgents are following through on their threat to target cell-phone towers if wireless firms continue providing nighttime service. Up to nine towers in southern Afghanistan have been attacked since last month. Why go after telecom? The Taliban believes informants use cell phones to alert U.S. troops after dark. According to the U.S. military, more than 50 high-level Taliban members were killed in 2007--many at night...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Briefing | 3/13/2008 | See Source »

...Fifth Avenue apartment since his initial apology Monday, was negotiating a deal to avoid prosecution. But U.S. Attorney Michael Garcia denied that was the case. "There is no agreement between this office and Governor Eliot Spitzer, relating to his resignation or any other matter," Garcia, of New York's Southern District, said in a statement. Conviction on Mann Act and "structuring" charges could mean prison time...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Perilous Future of Eliot Spitzer | 3/12/2008 | See Source »

...moment long awaited by NASA scientists, the unmanned orbiter Cassini will pass through geysers of ice, water vapor and dust erupting from the southern pole of the 310-mile-wide moon Enceladus, in hopes of collecting fine particles. The 465-mile-high plumes shooting out from fissures, or tiger stripes, in the moon's surface, were first discovered during a similar but much more distant flyby...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Is There Life on Saturn's Moon? | 3/11/2008 | See Source »

...known as the mother of two shahids, (martyrs) and is sometimes called "commander" by her "sisters." In a neighborhood close to the bazaar district in southern Tehran, Aghdas Moradi, better known as "the mother of Shahid Mohammad Mehdi Abolghasemi," is scurrying around with her black chador flailing around her, giving orders to the men on the other end of her walkie-talkie...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Getting Out the Vote in Iran | 3/11/2008 | See Source »

Nonetheless, the position of Evangelicals in general (of whom Southern Baptists represent a sizable piece) has been swinging ever greener. Back in 2006, megapastor Rick Warren signed onto a statement calling for a reduction in CO2 emissions. More recently, old-line Evangelical leaders, such as James Dobson and Gary Bauer, tried to oust Richard Cizik, the head lobbyist of the National Association of Evangelicals, who has fueled attempts to rally conservative Christians to the environmental cause; but Cizik's organization, while never fully supporting his mission, refused to drop him. Cizik is pleased with Merritt's declaration. "That resolution last...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Greening of the Baptists | 3/10/2008 | See Source »

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