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That may be just how Kagame wants it. Human-rights groups say he has used the specter of the genocide to solidify his power base and perpetrate a new campaign of repression. The media is no longer free. Last year, the government passed a vague law that seeks to stamp out "genocide ideology." That has chilled free speech and criticism of the government. (Read "Rwanda's Most Wanted...
...possibility that Iran is playing us in all of this. It wants the world's attention. It wants to be taken seriously. It wants to sit at the table with the G-20. And there's no better way to do this than scaring us with the specter of a nuclear-armed Iran...
...Arlen Specter...
...given the looming specter of climate change, they may have to find a way sooner rather than later. The prospect of another typhoon this week underscores environmentalists' concern that shifts in global temperatures may mean increasingly extreme weather patterns for coastal cities like Manila. "[Ketsana] was a startling, unique event," says Herminia Francisco of the EEPSA in Singapore. "But then I think this is going to happen more and more frequently in the future." (See a TIME graphic on destructive weather...
...specter stalked the world in the 1960s: the looming threat of mass starvation. As populations grew in the postwar years, farmers failed to keep pace--until the arrival of a humble plant scientist named Norman Borlaug...