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MAHMOUD ABBAS, front runner in the race for Palestinian President, dropping his usually civil language after Israeli tank fire killed seven Palestinian youths in Gaza...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Verbatim: Jan. 17, 2005 | 1/9/2005 | See Source »

...came out for a ban, to take effect in 2012, on force-feeding ducks, which is how foie gras is produced. "Arnold is the leading indicator of the revenge of the political moderates," says Paul Saffo, a director of the Institute for the Future, a Silicon Valley think tank. The Governor has deliberately created a distance between himself and the more conservative wing of the Republican Party. During the presidential campaigns, he appeared only once, in Ohio, for George W. Bush...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Arnold Show | 12/17/2004 | See Source »

Army General Barry McCaffrey, "but not to a soldier who's extremely concerned about the safety of himself and his buddies." Rumsfeld compounded the gaffe by adding that "you can have all the armor in the world in a tank, and a tank can be blown up." On Capitol Hill, Democrats ripped Rumsfeld for his insensitivity. "By that logic," says Delaware Senator Joseph Biden, "we should send our troops into battle on bicycles...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: How Safe Are Our Troops? | 12/17/2004 | See Source »

...activity--despite the fact that there's still plenty of glucose available. The biggest drops occur in exactly those areas of the cortex that anticipate and integrate emotion and reason. After 24 hours, however, the drop-off stabilizes. "But performance doesn't level off," Belenky notes. "It continues to tank." Why? No one knows...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Why We Sleep | 12/17/2004 | See Source »

...line that led Darin back to stardom and satisfaction were not Sandra saying, “People hear what they see.” Even at the very end of the movie, when Darin, gravely ill but still performing, must go backstage between songs to gulp oxygen from a tank, the message seems to be that image is everything...

Author: By Marianne F. Kaletzky, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Movie Review - Beyond the Sea | 12/17/2004 | See Source »

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