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When my 11-year-old got her tetanus shot during her checkup last week, her pediatrician did not tell her that it was now safe to go dance barefoot on rusty nails. Which got me wondering about a recent battle in the culture wars, in which conservative groups were reported to be opposing a great medical breakthrough - the new cervical cancer vaccine - on the grounds that it might encourage kids to think that casual sex just got a little bit safer...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Defusing the War Over the "Promiscuity" Vaccine | 6/21/2006 | See Source »

...gone to Pakistan for a wedding. Their timing was unfortunate: September 2001. Their itinerary was disastrous: they wandered into Afghanistan and, through a series of wrong turns, were rounded up with Taliban soldiers. In vain they pleaded their innocence to their captors (Afghan, British and U.S.). Soon, as they tell it in this mixture of interviews and re-enactments, they were off to Gitmo for two years of physical, psychological and religious abuse. In 2004 they were released, without charges or apologies...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Movies: A Hot New Crop of Docs | 6/19/2006 | See Source »

...about a different WMD threat: hydrogen cyanide gas. As in the rest of the book, he illuminates the constant interplay and occasional tension between the "invisibles," the men and women in the intelligence and uniformed services actually fighting the war on terrorism, and the "notables," high-level officials who "tell us that everything will be fine, or that we should be very afraid, or both." Suskind, who won the Pulitzer Prize as a reporter at the Wall Street Journal, wrote the 2004 best seller The Price of Loyalty, an inside look at the Bush Administration. In The One Percent Doctrine...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Untold Story of al-Qaeda's Plot to Attack the Subway | 6/19/2006 | See Source »

...Tenet said. "But I'll tell you everything you need to know...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Untold Story of al-Qaeda's Plot to Attack the Subway | 6/19/2006 | See Source »

...what Ali would next tell his American handlers would shape American policy and launch years of debate inside the White House. He said that al-Ayeri had come to tell al-Zawahiri of a plot that was well under way in the United States. It was a hydrogen cyanide attack planned for the New York City subways. The cell members had traveled to New York City through North Africa in the fall of 2002 and had thoroughly cased the locations for the attacks. The device would be the mubtakkar. There would be several placed in subway cars and other strategic...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Untold Story of al-Qaeda's Plot to Attack the Subway | 6/19/2006 | See Source »

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