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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...them down never went near their skivvies. "My guess is, if they were doing the truly intrusive pat-down designed to find even three ounces of explosives," says Stewart Baker, former assistant secretary for policy at the U.S. Department of Homeland Security, "we probably would have heard cries of protest from travelers." The lack of furor suggests the pat-downs were probably annoying and not much else. (See why it's difficult to detonate a bomb midflight...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Air Security Rules: Are We Any Safer? | 12/30/2009 | See Source »

...women's cell block with threats of violence, punishing anyone who challenged her. In 2006 she was transferred for beating up a fellow prisoner. Declaring she was too disruptive to mix with other inmates, officials put Muna in solitary confinement. In 2007, however, she went on hunger strike to protest her isolation; she was kept in her cell for up to 23 hours a day. In June 2008 she was moved to the Damon Prison in northern Israel, where she has told visitors the conditions are slightly better...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Woman in the Way of a Palestinian Prisoner Deal | 12/30/2009 | See Source »

TUMULT IN TEHRAN After incumbent Mahmoud Ahmadinejad was declared the winner of Iran's June presidential election by what many considered an implausibly wide margin, millions of Iranians massed in protest. Opposition supporters braved beatings by paramilitary thugs and sidestepped a crackdown on the media by spreading news through Facebook and Twitter. There was no happy ending for the protesters--Ahmadinejad's win was certified--but the popular dissatisfaction they embodied marked an unprecedented, ongoing challenge to Iran's conservative theocracy...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The World | 12/28/2009 | See Source »

...Tajrish - a center for shoppers, families and fun-seekers - had not seen a protest since the June election. Tonight, a crowd of thousands cried out from Tehran's northernmost square and anticipated their own Karbala...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: On Scene: Preparing for a Bloody Confrontation | 12/27/2009 | See Source »

...proven. Two popes were among the new "venerables." The first was Benedict's still-mega-popular predecessor, John Paul II. The other, however, has doubts swirling around his legacy more than half-a-century after his passing. The inclusion of Pope Piux XII among the venerables brought howls of protest from Jewish groups across Europe and the world...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Benedict's Pope: Should Pius XII Become a Saint? | 12/22/2009 | See Source »

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