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In making arrests, there are other challenges. Previously, U.S. troops could detain Iraqi nationals at will, and for unspecified lengths of time without due process if they were suspected to have participated in insurgent activity. Now the troops must first obtain an Iraqi warrant - something that often requires the presentation...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Iraq's Iffy New Year's Resolution | 1/2/2009 | See Source »

For now, you needn't worry about resynchronizing the clocks on your electronic devices; they'll adjust themselves. Cell phones, for instance, will receive a signal from a cell-phone base station, many of which often rely on commercially available rubidium atomic clocks. But if you would like to witness...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Wait a Second: Why 2008 Was a Long Year | 12/31/2008 | See Source »

Leaving aside whether Camara's promises can be trusted - Conté himself seized power days after Guinea's first president Sekou Toure died and then ruled with an iron fist for 24 years - Guineans' enthusiastic welcome of the new junta is a measure of how desperate they are for change...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Why Guinea's People Welcomed the Coup | 12/26/2008 | See Source »

Another 40 or so are either in custody or remain fugitives. The court has been plagued by delays - from lawyers who died to procedural stalling to the difficulty of flying in witnesses or providing them with proper protection back home. "This case in some ways shows that these international justice...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Final Measure of Justice in the Rwandan Genocide | 12/20/2008 | See Source »

Let me put this as simply as the film does: A man named François Marin (François Bégaudeau) teaches - or tries to teach - French to 14- and 15-year-old students in a coldly modern school in Paris. His classroom is not quite a blackboard...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Class: A Year in the Blackboard Jungle | 12/17/2008 | See Source »

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