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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...preparedness service that was created after 9/11 and that most Americans have never heard of. He did not demand that the government be more open with us about the threats we face. He did not discuss the government's obligation, as homeland-security expert Stephen Flynn puts it, to "support regular people in being able to withstand, rapidly recover and adapt to foreseeable risks...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Lesson: Passengers Are Not Helpless | 12/30/2009 | See Source »

...there any good news here? If there is, it mostly falls in the category of cold comfort. Al-Qaeda's high command in Pakistan is under pressure from the U.S.'s steady campaign of drone strikes, and the jihadists' indiscriminate cruelty has earned more revulsion than support from ordinary Muslims. And yet even if terrorists have been reduced to wearing explosives in their underwear, they are still able to find aimless, religiously fired or underloved young men to carry out suicide missions. And while al-Qaeda scientists in Yemen and western Pakistan have not fully mastered the chemistry of high...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: What We Can Learn from Flight 253 | 12/30/2009 | See Source »

Because the poor - the main source of Lula's support - usually don't go to the movies in Brazil (more than 90% of the country's municipalities do not even have a cinema), Barreto says the movie company is offering cheap tickets to union members and plans to show the film on mobile screens in rural areas. They are also prescreening the film for some of Lula's critics in the hope they will give it two thumbs up, thereby potentially attracting more middle-class viewers. But just who will pay to see it remains a concern. "The biggest problem...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Lula Onscreen: Brazil's President as Superhero | 12/30/2009 | See Source »

...past, the Chinese government has cited the need for deterrence and public support of the death penalty to justify its broad use of capital punishment. In online forums on Chinese websites, opinion over the Shaikh case tends to back the official stance. "We should stick to the Chinese law no matter what, instead of bending under the pressure from Western countries," wrote a commentator in a chat room on Tianya.com. "Otherwise, we would only damage the dignity of China's judicial system...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Despite a Controversial Execution, China Curbs Use of the Death Penalty | 12/30/2009 | See Source »

...predominantly Muslim northern Nigeria, feeding an already tense coexistence between the country's equally large Christian and Muslim populations. Sani blames Nigerian authorities for "negligence and security lapses" that have created a constant threat of violence. "You have numerous groups of extremist religious sects that have been receiving support and sponsorship from nations across the world," Sani says. "And no one has any tab on who are these people, who is funding them and what are the funds meant...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Detroit Suspect: From Nigeria's Privileged, a Radical Convert | 12/29/2009 | See Source »

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