Jon B. Alterman | Time

 Posted on August 15, 2024  |  1 minutes  |  72 words  |  Martina Birk

Alterman is senior vice president, Zbigniew Brzezinski Chair in Global Security and Geostrategy, and the director of the Middle East Program at the Center for Strategic and International Studies. Earlier in his career, he was a member of the policy planning staff at the U.S. Department of State, a special assistant to the Assistant Secretary of State for Near Eastern Affairs, and a foreign policy adviser to Senator Daniel P. Moynihan. [Read More]

June 14th, 1999 | Vol. 153, No. 23 | U.S.

 Posted on August 15, 2024  |  1 minutes  |  7 words  |  Tandra Barner

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Lego Brickumentary: Number of Lego Brick Combinations

 Posted on August 15, 2024  |  1 minutes  |  180 words  |  Patria Henriques

July 31, 2015 9:45 AM EDT With the Danish documentary on LEGO, A LEGO Brickumentary, premiering in U.S. theaters, iTunes, and OnDemand Friday, the gaming news website Kotaku posted a clip from the film profiling the math professor who became famous for calculating that there are 915,103,765 ways to combine six, eight-stud LEGO bricks. Inspired by a LEGOLAND display that seemed to lowball the number at 103 million, Søren Eilers from the University of Copenhagen created a computer program that now drums up that figure in 5 minutes. [Read More]

Mass. Governor's Son Accused of Groping Woman on Airplane

 Posted on August 15, 2024  |  2 minutes  |  237 words  |  Patria Henriques

Updated: June 23, 2018 12:22 PM [ET] | Originally published: June 23, 2018 10:21 AM EDT; Massachusetts Gov. Charlie Baker’s adult son has reportedly been accused of inappropriately touching a female passenger during a flight from Washington, D.C., to Boston. Multiple local outlets reported that a woman accused Andrew “AJ” Baker of groping her breast during a JetBlue flight on Wednesday. The woman told authorities that flight attendants had to move her to another seat after Baker allegedly refused to stop touching her, CBS Boston reports. [Read More]

Men of All Ages Want Women in Their Mid-20s, Study Says

 Posted on August 15, 2024  |  1 minutes  |  154 words  |  Kelle Repass

September 26, 2014 12:55 PM EDT Straight men of all ages tend to have their romantic sights set on women in their mid-twenties, while women prefer men who are about the same age as they are, according to a new study. The survey out Friday, financed by the government-backed research funding group Academy of Finland, gathered data on 12,000 Finns and found that women, on average, are looking for partners who are about their age or slightly older. [Read More]

No Time Wasted: Anti-Osama Merchandise Rapidly Multiplies Online

 Posted on August 15, 2024  |  2 minutes  |  245 words  |  Kelle Repass

redbubble.comBuy your anti-Osama T-shirts and mugs today! The Sept. 11 attacks and Osama bin Laden triggered a new industry centered around airport security. Now, his death has triggered an uptick in the funny T-shirt business. As news filtered out last night that U.S. special operations forces killed Osama bin Laden in Abottabad, Pakistan, people looking to capitalize on his death got to work – making T-shirts and coffee mugs. [Read More]

NUJ cautions politicians to stop attacking journalists on duty

 Posted on August 15, 2024  |  3 minutes  |  612 words  |  Patria Henriques

This demand, amongst several others, is part of resolutions of the union’s National Executive Committee (NEC) which held its quarterly meeting in Ibadan between Thursday and Saturday. In a communique listing the resolutions, released on Sunday by the union’s National Secretary, Achike Chude, the NUJ urged that such actions by security personnel should be stopped forthwith. The meeting presided over by the NUJ President, Comrade Chris Isiguzo, also cautioned politicians to refrain from attacking journalists on essential duties during the upcoming governorship elections in Ondo state and Edo. [Read More]

Pictures of the Week: March 1 March 8

 Posted on August 15, 2024  |  1 minutes  |  39 words  |  Martina Birk

March 8, 2013 10:35 AM EST

From the death of Venezuelan president Hugo Chavez and elections in Kenya to violent protests in Bahrain and International Women’s Day around the world, TIME presents the best images of the week.

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PnB Rock Murder Trial: Two Men Guilty on All Counts

 Posted on August 15, 2024  |  4 minutes  |  748 words  |  Kelle Repass

Two men have been found guilty on all counts in connection to the murder of PnB Rock. According to Rolling Stone, Freddie Trone, 42, was charged with felony murder, two counts of robber and one count of conspiracy earlier today. [Read More]