Thursday, August 6, 2009

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Inside the Fight Against a Flu Pandemic

By MICHAEL SCHERER

More than 2 billion people worldwide could get it. Hundreds of schools may shut down. And 160 million Americans will need to be vaccinated — twice

Pakistan: Who's Attacking the Christians?

By OMAR WARAICH / GOJRA

A number of factors contribute to growing religious intolerance: a harsh blasphemy law and the increasing presence of radical Islamist organizations

What Insurers Are Trying to Get Out of Health Reform

By KATE PICKERT

Despite their protests that they are being unfairly vilified in the health-care reform battle, the insurance industry is far from ready to accept the reform proposals currently on the table

Street Protests Continue with Ahmadinejad New Term

By TIME STAFF

As the hard-liner takes office, the regime moves in force to clamp down on demonstrations around the ceremony. But the street action does not cease

Immigration: Let's Get Over It

By KURT ANDERSEN

Kurt Andersen argues that open borders and innovative immigration policy are critical to America's rebound

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Swampland

By Amy Sullivan

Back in the fall of 2008, the conservative Christian group the Alliance Defense Fund organized "Pulpit Freedom Sunday," a sort-of civil disobedience event for which pastors were encouraged to endorse John McCain and challenge IRS regulations.

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Top 10 Worst Corporate Name Changes

In honor of Radio Shack's decision to drop the word "Radio" from its name, TIME takes a look back at other questionable company moniker swaps

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"Quality journalism is not cheap."
RUPERT MURDOCH,
announcing that all of his news websites, including the New York Post and the Times of London, will charge for content by the summer of 2010
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Postcard from...

Freetown

Singing to Stop the Fighting in Sierra Leone

By Glenna Gordon / Freetown

Seven years after the end of its brutal civil war, Sierra Leone is still struggling with ethnic tensions and conflict. But at a studio in the country's capital, young musicians are trying to make a change through song

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