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Around the world, security measures remain inconsistent - and inconsistently applied. Abdulmutallab tried to get around the barriers by sewing an 80-g packet of PETN into the crotch of his underpants, betting that if he boarded in Lagos and transferred in Amsterdam, he would make his way undetected onto the...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: What We Can Learn from Flight 253 | 12/30/2009 | See Source »

I would like to say that writer/director Nancy Meyers' film is cause for celebration, but it's a bit more complicated than that. Meyers has written some astute scenes about aging and regret, heartbreak and hope. In the role of a successful businesswoman - Jane owns and operates an upscale bakery/caf...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: It's Complicated: But Not Complicated Enough | 12/24/2009 | See Source »

But Peter Bergen, an Al-Qaeda expert at the New American Foundation, says Awlaki was merely "important as an inciter to jihad, no more." Bruce Hoffman, a terrorism expert at Georgetown University says it's unlikely Awlaki would have beeen involved in operational activities. "He was a cleric, not a...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Has the Alleged Fort Hood Gunman's Imam Been Silenced? | 12/24/2009 | See Source »

The one church in Hawaii with which Obama does have a family connection is unlikely to be the place where the First Family would worship on Christmas Eve. As a child, Obama occasionally attended Sunday school classes at the First Unitarian Church of Honolulu, and his family held a memorial...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: No Churchgoing Christmas for the First Family | 12/23/2009 | See Source »

With both Obama and Ahmadinejad having been painted into corners, the deadlock is unlikely to be broken by the sanctions that are expected to be put in place in the coming months. Hawks will argue that's because Iran is intractably committed to building nuclear weapons; doves will say that...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Stalemate: How Obama's Iran Outreach Failed | 12/22/2009 | See Source »

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