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There is no shortage of ambition packed into the rocket that lifted off from French Guiana at lunchtime on Thursday. The celestial mission carries two space telescopes that aim to unravel the universe's biggest mysteries: the life and death of stars...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Two Telescopes to Measure the Big Bang | 5/14/2009 | See Source »

Researchers from the University of Oxford announced on Thursday that they have developed the first genetic test for predicting the likelihood that a patient's colon cancer will recur...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Study: First Test for Colon-Cancer Recurrence | 5/14/2009 | See Source »

...many people get away with calling the Central Intelligence Agency a bald-faced liar, at least not when they're speaking to a room packed with dozens of national media outlets. And yet that is exactly what House Speaker Nancy Pelosi did on Thursday. "Madam Speaker, just to be clear," stuttered a reporter at a Capitol Hill press conference, "you're accusing the CIA of lying to you in September of 2002?" "Yes," Pelosi declared definitively, "misleading the Congress of the United States...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: How Waterboarding Is Drowning Pelosi | 5/14/2009 | See Source »

...Which is not to say that the conference was all talk. In fact, it was hard to ignore the glee with which attendees set upon the nearly endless plates of ham. Not just at the gala dinner on Thursday night, but at daily morning breaks for ham sandwiches, and at the closing lunch, held on the dehesa, where the jamón ran as freely as the wine - no one, it seemed, tired of eating the stuff. Standing beneath a cork tree, Piero Sardo, president of the anti-fast food organization Slow Food, reached for yet another slice. "Delicious...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: What Swine Flu? Spain Celebrates Cured Ham | 5/12/2009 | See Source »

...great part because of his endeavors that Saberi was being released so quickly. He said he had a meeting with government and judiciary officials a few days ago, in which he explained to them the importance of Saberi appearing at the opening of his new film on Thursday at the Cannes Film Festival, "because she was going to talk about the Persian Gulf. I told them it would be good for Iran." Ghobadi has cited Saberi as a co-writer on his latest film...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Roxana Saberi: Out of Iranian Prison, Into a Soap Opera | 5/11/2009 | See Source »

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