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The IAMM is a gorgeous monument to the porous qualities of Islamic culture. With its elegant restaurant, storytelling sessions for children and calligraphy workshops, the museum is a neat expression of Islam Hadhari, or "civilizational Islam," Malaysian Prime Minister Abdullah Badawi's campaign to promote a moderate, modern version of...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religious Experience | 7/17/2008 | See Source »

In California, the new hands-free law contains several surprising loopholes. The statute doesn't explicitly prohibit drivers from dialing a cell phone, although motorists are strongly urged not to dial while driving. Of course, dialing while driving is even more dangerous than talking, since you have to take your...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cell Phones on the Road: What Goes? | 7/16/2008 | See Source »

We've now looked at over 250,000 men and women for up to 30 years, and we [also] haven't seen that the percentage of calories from fat or from carbohydrates in your diet makes any difference in relation to heart attacks, various cancers or stroke. Having said that...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Which Are Worse: Calories from Carbs or Fat? | 7/15/2008 | See Source »

That Dunga is the scapegoat for Brazil's bad run of form is hardly surprising in a country that one of his predecessors once described as having 180 million coaches. But the players he chooses are also coming in for flak in a controversy that has raised the question of...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Brazil Wants Its Soccer Team Back | 7/15/2008 | See Source »

The first movement came before dawn: villagers filed out of their homes and a few hundred armed attackers took up positions in people's parlors and bedrooms. At about 4:30 a.m. in the town of Want, which is part of Nooristan province in eastern Afghanistan, the attackers, believed to...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: New Attack Adds to Afghans' Woes | 7/14/2008 | See Source »

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