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...National Institutes for Health, researchers found that an estimated 35% of Americans over the age of 40 - roughly 69 million people - suffer from vestibular dysfunction, or as it is more commonly known, an inner-ear balance disorder. By age 60 and older, the data showed, inner-ear imbalances strike more than half of all Americans. (Watch TIME's video "Uninsured Again...
...everything is bad. Tsvangirai has made some progress in resurrecting Zimbabwe's all-but-dead economy. Schools that closed last September after teachers went on strike have reopened. Zimbabweans can now go to shops to buy basic goods that had not been available for 10 years, such as maize meal, sugar, cooking oil and salt (previously they had to be purchased in neighboring Botswana or South Africa and brought into the country). "I think they have done a lot," says economist John Robertson, "but prices must go down, and that will happen only when production improves." He adds, "Our [labor...
...June 2008, James Cromitie, a.k.a. Abdul Rahman, allegedly told an FBI informant in Newburgh, N.Y., that he wanted to join the jihad, or holy war, and strike a target in the U.S. Cromitie, whose parents had lived in Afghanistan, claimed he was angry about the war there; the U.S. military, he told the informant, was killing many Muslims in Afghanistan and Pakistan. He talked about possibly traveling to Afghanistan to become a "martyr" and go to paradise. He added that he was interested in doing "something to America." (See pictures of the life of Osama bin Laden...
...think there would be a ton of excitement because everybody feels like, Well, this is the opportunity. But if people know I'm out there every Saturday, what you get is more of the normal kind of - I'm sitting down, somebody may come over and sit and we strike up a conversation. There isn't a frenzy because, you know, you're out there with everybody else...
However, such overtures remain stunted by a deep and familiar mistrust. On Wednesday, Iran reportedly test-fired a new advanced missile with a range of about 1,200 miles, far enough to strike Israel, southeastern Europe and American bases in the Middle East. Obama, for his part, said he was ready to pursue tighter international sanctions...