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...argued then that owning up to such internal racism was the key to self-respect. Now that America has a black president, Massachusetts a black governor, and Cambridge a black mayor, you appear to have adopted the posture of racial victim. Are you trying to keep alive the politically potent appeal to liberal guilt...

Author: By Ruth R. Wisse | Title: A Colleague's Concerns | 7/30/2009 | See Source »

They call it "the switch." Alcoholics who take an anticraving medication called baclofen say the drug allows them to resist the most powerful triggers of relapse: former drinking buddies, a favorite bar, the sight of alcohol or even the most potent drinking cue of all, having a single drink...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Treating Alcohol Addiction: A Pill Instead of Abstinence? | 7/29/2009 | See Source »

...already acquired) was opposed by Obama, Gates, the Air Force leadership and the Senate's top military experts. That forced the F-22's backers to rely on less influential supporters - and reasons - to buy more planes: arguments from second-tier officers, imaginary threats and the most potent argument of all these days: 25,000 well-paying jobs. "This is a critically important program to maintain superiority - not parity, but superiority - which has always been our goal in protecting our national-security interests," argued Democratic Senator Chris Dodd of Connecticut, whose state builds the engines used...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Defense Secretary Gates Downs the F-22 | 7/22/2009 | See Source »

...Central Asia faces a complex and potent mix of religious conflict, political corruption, ideological violence and increasing poverty - not to mention factionalism within the governments of the region and the countries' distrust of one another. Add to all that fighters returning home to escape the war in Afghanistan, and it's unlikely that declarations of concern from Western diplomats or the presence of the Russian military will soon slow the rising tide of violence...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: How Afghanistan's War Is Spilling into Central Asia | 7/22/2009 | See Source »

...untouched rainforest and unadulterated indigenous life. His Into the Heart of Borneo recounts a 1983 attempt, with poet pal James Fenton, to "rediscover" the Borneo rhinoceros near Sarawak's mountainous border with Indonesia. O'Hanlon describes wild dance parties at Dayak longhouses, fueled by gallons of tuak, a potent milky rice wine, and enthuses about jaw-dropping tangles of tropical growth along the Rajang and its watery veins, some walled in by lush, 200-ft.-high (60 m) tree canopies...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Ebb and Flow in Borneo | 7/15/2009 | See Source »

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