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...week did not begin auspiciously for either presidential candidate. On Monday, Barack Obama's normally sure-footed campaign suffered a rare, completely unnecessary embarrassment, when it had to retire the pseudo-presidential seal it had trotted out a few days earlier. The seal - complete with a Latin phrase for "Yes, we can" replacing "E Pluribus Unum" - was such a head-slapping example of gratuitous hubris that you had to wonder whether the opposition hadn't activated a mole inside the Obama campaign. It was an invitation to ridicule that Republicans happily accepted...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Week in Politics | 6/28/2008 | See Source »

...pays for the condoms his friend will use to betray him. Even his ATM sasses him. "Insufficient funds," the text brays at him. "You're an asshole." When he was an infant, his father disappeared, and Wesley can't blame him. He doesn't want to be around himself either. And yet, depressed to the point of inertia, he can't summon the resolve to commit suicide...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Holy Jolie! Wanted Delivers | 6/27/2008 | See Source »

...Radiation showed that radiologic technologists (RT) rarely make those adjustments. "Changing technical factors is very easy. It just requires a little thought and a few extra seconds," says Michele Scoglietti, a spokesperson for the American Society of Radiologic Technologists. "But I think there are many RTs who are either not trained to vary the technique, don't know how, are in a hurry or are just lazy...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: How Dangerous Are CT Scans? | 6/27/2008 | See Source »

...many poor South Africans - has held off from putting a chokehold on Zimbabwe, to which it supplies massive amounts of electricity. And if oil companies withdrew from Zimbabwe, for example, government officials would likely smuggle in enough fuel to keep the regime running, says Cargill, while "ordinary people would either have none or would have to request it from the government...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Art of Ousting Mugabe | 6/27/2008 | See Source »

...peaceful nuclear project - "basically, the message has been, when hell freezes over," says Cossa. But with North Korea having been officially taken off the bad guy list, this is likely to be the next item on Kim Jong Il's wish list. And it will probably be either Barack Obama or John McCain who decides whether to grant his wish...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The US Makes Nice to North Korea | 6/26/2008 | See Source »

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