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...drawn international condemnation, and has contributed to a slowdown in foreign investment as well as a weakening of Turkey's currency. That said, political Islam would indeed pose a future threat to the modern lifestyles of many Turks - and, despite the AKP's protestations, it's not unreasonable to suspect that the party might want to strengthen Islam's role in political life. Still, it's worth keeping such worries from spiraling out of control. After all, if secularists undermine Turkey's democratic institutions in the name of averting a still nebulous risk, their cure may prove far worse than...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Turkey: God and Country | 7/16/2008 | See Source »

...series of audits and went to repair stations to count their stock. One of those was the FAA's own Logistics Center, where the agency kept the parts inventory for its own fleet. I felt considerable satisfaction at finding that 39% of the FAA's own spare parts were suspect. Inevitably, this finding outraged the FAA--they argued with us, insisting that our audit of random samples could not be accurate, that what we had found was simply "suspected unapproved parts," not bogus parts. Indignant, they declared they would conduct their own survey of FAA bins--and promptly found more...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FLYING INTO TROUBLE | 7/14/2008 | See Source »

...more than a decade, the product of tortured haggling over clauses and amendments and tireless campaigning by members of the city's vocal civil society. Yet the passage of this landmark legislation has been met by anything but elation. Its original proponents see it as too weak, while some suspect the Beijing-backed government would rather it had not passed at all. "It's very shameful," says Fermi Wong, director of the minority advocacy group Hong Kong Unison. "There has been a lack of commitment throughout...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: HK's Half-Baked Anti-Racism Law | 7/14/2008 | See Source »

...Palm Island. On Nov. 19, 2004, Doomadgee was arrested for allegedly swearing at police officers. Some 40 minutes later, he lay dead in a cell with a black eye, bruising to his head, body and hands, four broken ribs, a ruptured portal vein and a split liver. The only suspect was Senior Sergeant Chris Hurley, whom Queensland's Deputy State Coroner found responsible for the death but who was acquitted of manslaughter at trial. Melbourne-based Hooper, 34, takes us through every stage in an observant, acute and compassionate narration...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: No Winners | 7/10/2008 | See Source »

...favorable social policies. There is universal health insurance in most of these societies - that, of course, makes a difference in health care. You can also consider income inequality in America, since people who are at the low end of the totem pole have considerable adversity making ends meet. I suspect the difference [in height between Americans and Europeans] is due to both diet and health care...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Why Are People Taller Today Than Yesterday? | 7/8/2008 | See Source »

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