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Beck is a man we can trust to tell it "like it really is." We little ol' unimportant taxpayers with no tax loopholes are just looking for accountability and transparency in government, as we were promised and as we expect. Lori Horan, MUSKEGON, MICH...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: China's Future | 10/19/2009 | See Source »

...mountains, where peaks of black sand descend toward ancient oasis towns. In many of its cities, men still haggle over livestock in dusty markets and purchase blades from blacksmiths whose families have stayed in the craft for centuries. The faces of its Uighur inhabitants, a Turkic Muslim ethnic group, tell of Xinjiang's history as a crossroads for caravans and civilizations: an astonishing array of gray, hazel and blue eyes, fringed by brown or black or even blond hair. Marco Polo journeyed through these parts and noted, along with generations of other travelers, not just the stark beauty...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Shifting Sands in China's Stark Xinjiang Region | 10/19/2009 | See Source »

When Michael calls to ask Jim’s advice about how to escape the mafia, Jim says he will tell him exactly what to do but then pretends the phone connection is breaking up. So all Michael hears is “…[crinkle]….[crinkle]…and then you’ll be safe….bermuda triangle…[crinkle]….” Hilarious...

Author: By Michelle L. Quach | Title: Recap: "Mafia" | 10/17/2009 | See Source »

...next June, when his tour of duty in Afghanistan was to end. "I cried every day he was there," his mother, a lawyer, says. "I took long walks every day, worried every minute, avoided reading the papers or listening to news about the war, wondered how my son could tell the difference between people over there who wanted peace and people who wanted to kill him." (Watch a video of the soldier experience in Afghanistan...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: One Death in Afghanistan: Ben Sklaver's Story | 10/16/2009 | See Source »

...there are growing signs that the U.S. may be willing to abandon that condition. A number of well-placed sources in Honduras and the U.S. tell TIME that officials in the State Department and the U.S.'s OAS delegation have informed them that the Obama Administration is mulling ways to legitimize the election should talks fail to restore Zelaya in time. "We're suddenly hearing from them that the one may no longer be a [precondition] for the other," says a Western diplomat in the Honduran capital of Tegucigalpa, where Zelaya is currently holed up in the Brazilian embassy...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Is U.S. Opposition to the Honduran Coup Lessening? | 10/16/2009 | See Source »

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