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...composite 787 (assuming it ever gets built). Airbus is already developing a new not-so-jumbo jet, the A350, for that purpose. But Air France CEO Pierre-Henri Gourgeon is sticking by his hub strategy. The skies are getting crowded, and he'd rather have the A380 to collect passengers in Paris from all over Europe and deliver them to places like New York and Johannesburg. "It's just like the big cities today," he says. "It doesn't make sense to add a lot of small cars. You need to add buses." (Read Airbus vs. Boeing: Bigger vs. Faster...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Can the A380 Bring the Party Back to the Skies? | 11/23/2009 | See Source »

...Reality differed from Humphreys' expectations. His arrival in Bindoon, a small town in Western Australia, marked the end of his formal education. By 14, he was driving a truck to collect rocks and sand for a construction site where he and other child-migrant laborers were working. They were under the control of the Christian Brothers, an international Catholic congregation who are today notorious for their record of physically and sexually abusing orphans. "[The Brothers] were not afraid to use a belt. They wore these black robes that had a pocket on the inside - like a holster," remembers Humphreys...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Australia Apologizes to Abused Child Migrants | 11/16/2009 | See Source »

...leaderless resistance" is the wave of the future, it may be less lethal but harder to fight; there are fewer clues to collect and less chatter to hear, even as information about means and methods is so much more widely dispersed. It is more like spontaneous combustion than someone from the outside lighting a match. Senator Joe Lieberman's Homeland Security Committee warned of this threat in a report last year. "The emergence of these self-generated violent Islamist extremists who are radicalized online presents a challenge," the report concluded, "because lone wolves are less likely to come...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Fort Hood Killer: Terrified ... or Terrorist? | 11/11/2009 | See Source »

...next morning, Obama ordered all the agencies to do an inventory of their files, collect every scrap they had on Hasan and review how that information had been handled. "We needed to understand what we knew and when we knew it," the official says, "and not to make any preliminary or premature judgments about anything...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Fort Hood Killer: Terrified ... or Terrorist? | 11/11/2009 | See Source »

Chamberlain said the fieldwork was a combination of extremes, involving exciting mountain—bike excursions to collect butterflies followed by hours of sitting and waiting for them to mate. “It was sometimes frustrating when you felt like you were giving it your all but the butterflies were not performing,” Hill added...

Author: By Julie R. Barzilay, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Butterflies Lend Insights About Speciation | 11/6/2009 | See Source »

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