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...open," he says. By contrast, opponents who make sexuality an issue are typically viewed as mean-spirited and politically incompetent. When Hamburg's former vice mayor Ronald Schill outed the city's Mayor Ole von Beust at a press conference in 2003, Germans mocked Schill, and Von Beust went on to win the 2004 elections in a landslide...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Europe's Gay Leaders: Out at The Top | 1/18/2010 | See Source »

...that cartoons promised me would exist by 2010, people don't seem nearly as excited as they should be. Only 34% of Skype calls even use video. And when Skype announced on Jan. 5 at the Consumer Electronics Show that we'll soon have videophones on our televisions, everyone went right back to talking about which booths gave out the best key-chain lights. (Get the latest tech news at Techland.com...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Call Me! But Not on Skype or Any Other Videophone | 1/18/2010 | See Source »

...network deployed 19 hijackers on four planes; on 12/25, by contrast, it managed only one. Second, the underwear attack failed because Abdulmutallab wasn't particularly well trained. The 19 Sept. 11 hijackers were personally selected by Osama bin Laden from the tens of thousands of potential killers who went through al-Qaeda's Afghan training camps in the 1990s. The ringleaders got extensive training on the design of airplanes and the behavior of aircraft crews, even before they enrolled in U.S. flight schools. The grunts were made to slit the throats of camels and sheep to overcome their inhibitions about...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Amid the Hysteria, a Look at What al-Qaeda Can't Do | 1/18/2010 | See Source »

State legislatures passed more than 40,000 new laws last year, many of which went into effect on Jan. 1. While some were significant enough to make headlines at the time (like New Hampshire's legalization of gay marriage in June), others sneaked onto the books without much notice at all (Arkansas now prohibits the sale of toy guns that look real--unless they're of the BB, paintball or pellet variety). With the New Year, Illinois became the 19th state to outlaw texting while driving; North Carolina, a major tobacco-producing state, outlawed smoking in restaurants and bars...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The World | 1/18/2010 | See Source »

...Friday] everybody went into the game hoping for the win, and that didn’t happen,” senior goaltender Christina Kessler said. “[Against Colgate] that was our objective, and we’re glad we accomplished...

Author: By Kate Leist, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Crimson Surges to First 2010 Win | 1/18/2010 | See Source »

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