Copyright (c) 2008 Yahoo! Inc. All rights reserved. http://news.yahoo.com/i/3001 U.S. - Time en-us Fri, 04 Jul 2008 05:15:00 GMT 5 142 18 http://news.yahoo.com/i/3001 http://us.i1.yimg.com/us.yimg.com/i/us/nws/th/main_142b.gif http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/timeus/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/time/20080704/us_time/mccainandobamaonpatriotism time/20080704/mccainandobamaonpatriotism Time.com Fri, 04 Jul 2008 05:15:00 GMT <p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/timeus/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/time/20080704/us_time/mccainandobamaonpatriotism"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/us.yimg.com/p/ap/20080703/capt.a385f6fe12894d18ab299a6859ac28b1.mccain_2008_mxev110.jpg?x=130&y=82&q=85&sig=ATEgst6VIamoiK2InR.dqg--" align="left" height="82" width="130" alt="Republican presidential candidate, Sen. John McCain, R-Ariz., leaves the stage for a media availability at a hanger at the Mexican Federal Police headquarters in the Ixtapalapa section of Mexico City, Thursday, July 3, 2008. (AP Photo/Eduardo Verdugo)" border="0" /></a>Time.com - How the candidates define their love of country may help determine the election's outcome. TIME asked each for his view of the meaning of patriotism. Here's how they responded</p><br clear="all"/> <p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/timeus/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/time/20080704/us_time/mccainandobamaonpatriotism"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/us.yimg.com/p/ap/20080703/capt.a385f6fe12894d18ab299a6859ac28b1.mccain_2008_mxev110.jpg?x=130&y=82&q=85&sig=ATEgst6VIamoiK2InR.dqg--" align="left" height="82" width="130" alt="photo" title="Republican presidential candidate, Sen. John McCain, R-Ariz., leaves the stage for a media availability at a hanger at the Mexican Federal Police headquarters in the Ixtapalapa section of Mexico City, Thursday, July 3, 2008. (AP Photo/Eduardo Verdugo)" border="0"/></a></p><br clear="all"/> (Time.com) http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/timeus/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/time/20080703/us_time/lookingkindlyonvigilantejustice time/20080703/lookingkindlyonvigilantejustice Time.com Thu, 03 Jul 2008 18:50:00 GMT Time.com - Viewpoint: A Texas grand jury let Joe Horn off the hook for killing two intruders. It's the latest example of the spreading impact of the dubious Castle Doctrine http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/timeus/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/time/20080703/us_time/howtoeat15poundsofhotdogs time/20080703/howtoeat15poundsofhotdogs Time.com Thu, 03 Jul 2008 18:50:00 GMT Time.com - Video: Joey Chestnut, the reigning champ of Nathan's Famous hot-dog eating contest, gives TIME's Sean Gregory a few tips http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/timeus/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/time/20080703/us_time/thebattleforcatholicvoters time/20080703/thebattleforcatholicvoters Time.com Thu, 03 Jul 2008 16:20:00 GMT <p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/timeus/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/time/20080703/us_time/thebattleforcatholicvoters"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/us.yimg.com/p/rids/20080625/i/ra3097423352.jpg?x=120&y=130&q=85&sig=LIqZ3nUb4MghFg.r.O5F.Q--" align="left" height="130" width="120" alt="Presidential candidates U.S. Senator Barack Obama (D-IL) (L) and U.S. Senator John McCain (R-AZ) meet onstage between back to back Republican and Democratic debates at St Anselems College in Manchester, New Hampshire in this January 5, 2008 file photo. REUTERS/Brian Snyder/Files" border="0" /></a>Time.com - With the economy and Iraq topping voter concerns, abortion has receded into the political background. As a TIME poll shows, that has put the Catholic vote up for grabs</p><br clear="all"/> <p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/timeus/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/time/20080703/us_time/thebattleforcatholicvoters"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/us.yimg.com/p/rids/20080625/i/ra3097423352.jpg?x=120&y=130&q=85&sig=LIqZ3nUb4MghFg.r.O5F.Q--" align="left" height="130" width="120" alt="photo" title="Presidential candidates U.S. Senator Barack Obama (D-IL) (L) and U.S. Senator John McCain (R-AZ) meet onstage between back to back Republican and Democratic debates at St Anselems College in Manchester, New Hampshire in this January 5, 2008 file photo. REUTERS/Brian Snyder/Files" border="0"/></a></p><br clear="all"/> (Time.com) http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/timeus/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/time/20080703/us_time/thecandidatesvicescrapspoker time/20080703/thecandidatesvicescrapspoker Time.com Thu, 03 Jul 2008 14:40:00 GMT <p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/timeus/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/time/20080703/us_time/thecandidatesvicescrapspoker"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/us.yimg.com/p/afp/20080623/capt.cps.muj00.230608040843.photo02.photo.default-438x512.jpg?x=111&y=130&q=85&sig=8V.73LW82SIGbqi61a2T0g--" align="left" height="130" width="111" alt="Barack Obama plays basketball. When Obama and John McCain want a break, Obama is more likely to hit the basketball court or cook up some chili, while McCain would prefer to eat barbecue and watch a boxing match(AFP/Getty Images/File/Mark Wilson)" border="0" /></a>Time.com - Obama learned the art of politics in backroom poker. McCain bets thousands at craps. What the candidates' passions for gambling tell us about their presidential ambitions</p><br clear="all"/> <p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/timeus/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/time/20080703/us_time/thecandidatesvicescrapspoker"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/us.yimg.com/p/afp/20080623/capt.cps.muj00.230608040843.photo02.photo.default-438x512.jpg?x=111&y=130&q=85&sig=8V.73LW82SIGbqi61a2T0g--" align="left" height="130" width="111" alt="photo" title="Barack Obama plays basketball. When Obama and John McCain want a break, Obama is more likely to hit the basketball court or cook up some chili, while McCain would prefer to eat barbecue and watch a boxing match(AFP/Getty Images/File/Mark Wilson)" border="0"/></a></p><br clear="all"/> (Time.com) http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/timeus/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/time/20080702/us_time/campaignfinancingabriefhistory time/20080702/campaignfinancingabriefhistory Time.com Wed, 02 Jul 2008 18:45:00 GMT Time.com - Politicians since Theodore Roosevelt have fretted over big donors' impact on U.S. elections; a hundred years later, though, campaigns still cost money http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/timeus/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/time/20080702/us_time/ismccainswarrecordsacrosanct time/20080702/ismccainswarrecordsacrosanct Time.com Wed, 02 Jul 2008 16:45:00 GMT Time.com - Obama's campaign is trying to suggest that the GOP candidate's prisoner-of-war experience does not equal foreign-policy expertise. So far, it isn't working http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/timeus/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/time/20080702/us_time/themessatgroundzero time/20080702/themessatgroundzero Time.com Wed, 02 Jul 2008 15:00:00 GMT Time.com - Viewpoint: Nearly seven years after 9/11, the rebuilding project is floundering. It's a sad example of why we're lagging in the next great challenge to American power http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/timeus/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/time/20080701/us_time/isosamabinladendyingagain time/20080701/isosamabinladendyingagain Time.com Tue, 01 Jul 2008 21:40:00 GMT Time.com - A CIA assessment says the al-Qaeda leader may have only months to live. But past diagnoses have proven unreliable http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/timeus/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/time/20080630/us_time/textmessagingbehindthewheel time/20080630/textmessagingbehindthewheel Time.com Mon, 30 Jun 2008 21:20:00 GMT Time.com - Several states are banning this driver distraction, but will these laws have much effect? http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/timeus/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/time/20080630/us_time/saudichargedinusscolebombing time/20080630/saudichargedinusscolebombing Time.com Mon, 30 Jun 2008 18:50:00 GMT Time.com - The Pentagon said Monday it is charging a Saudi Arabian with "organizing and directing" the 2000 bombing of the USS Cole - and will seek the death penalty http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/timeus/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/time/20080630/us_time/americasshrinkinggroceries time/20080630/americasshrinkinggroceries Time.com Mon, 30 Jun 2008 15:40:00 GMT Time.com - Faced with soaring production costs, food companies are resorting to the age-old practice of earning more by selling us less http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/timeus/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/time/20080630/us_time/billgatespcgeniusinternetfool time/20080630/billgatespcgeniusinternetfool Time.com Mon, 30 Jun 2008 13:35:00 GMT Time.com - As he retires from Microsoft, Josh Quittner examines the legacy of the man who made Windows, but missed the web http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/timeus/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/time/20080629/us_time/thecourtsgayrightslegacy time/20080629/thecourtsgayrightslegacy Time.com Sun, 29 Jun 2008 06:20:00 GMT Time.com - Five years after America's high court undid sodomy laws with Lawrence v. Texas, the landmark ruling has dramatically impacted the legal landscape for homosexuals http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/timeus/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/time/20080628/us_time/whenthesupremesgetalong time/20080628/whenthesupremesgetalong Time.com Sat, 28 Jun 2008 00:05:00 GMT Time.com - Despite two dramatic 5-4 decisions, the court is actually starting to move beyond its predictable ideological split http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/timeus/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/time/20080627/us_time/thefutureofguncontrol time/20080627/thefutureofguncontrol Time.com Fri, 27 Jun 2008 21:30:00 GMT Time.com - The Supreme Court has reaffirmed an individual's right to gun ownership, but don't expect gun control laws to go away http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/timeus/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/time/20080627/us_time/gloucesterprincipalstandsbystory time/20080627/gloucesterprincipalstandsbystory Time.com Fri, 27 Jun 2008 14:20:00 GMT Time.com - The man at the center of the controversy over a high school pregnancy "pact" doesn't recall using the word but insists the story is accurate http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/timeus/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/time/20080626/us_time/chicagounderattackbyblackbirds time/20080626/chicagounderattackbyblackbirds Time.com Thu, 26 Jun 2008 22:55:00 GMT Time.com - It's the season when the red-winged blackbird nests and the males are particularly aggressive. Just ask joggers and bikers and traumatized children http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/timeus/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/time/20080626/us_time/thefloodsamanmadedisaster time/20080626/thefloodsamanmadedisaster Time.com Thu, 26 Jun 2008 14:40:00 GMT <p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/timeus/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/time/20080626/us_time/thefloodsamanmadedisaster"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/us.yimg.com/p/ap/20080703/capt.2f1716ac583a49a688fc5546f85b07a0.midwest_flooding_ny137.jpg?x=130&y=72&q=85&sig=0hPyBqj0mIkq_2WHQGq6oQ--" align="left" height="72" width="130" alt="In this June 22, 2008 file photo, residents view the flooding Mississippi River from the US 54 bridge that crosses from Illinois to Louisiana, Mo. Two bridges — one at Quincy, Ill., the other at Louisiana, Mo. — reopened Wednesday July 2, 2008, because floodwaters no longer covered the bridge approaches. A highway reopened near Hannibal, Mo. (AP Photo/M. Spencer Green. file)" border="0" /></a>Time.com - Nature was responsible for the heavy rains, but river engineering bears much of the blame for the destruction in the Midwest that followed</p><br clear="all"/> <p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/timeus/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/time/20080626/us_time/thefloodsamanmadedisaster"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/us.yimg.com/p/ap/20080703/capt.2f1716ac583a49a688fc5546f85b07a0.midwest_flooding_ny137.jpg?x=130&y=72&q=85&sig=0hPyBqj0mIkq_2WHQGq6oQ--" align="left" height="72" width="130" alt="photo" title="In this June 22, 2008 file photo, residents view the flooding Mississippi River from the US 54 bridge that crosses from Illinois to Louisiana, Mo. Two bridges — one at Quincy, Ill., the other at Louisiana, Mo. — reopened Wednesday July 2, 2008, because floodwaters no longer covered the bridge approaches. A highway reopened near Hannibal, Mo. (AP Photo/M. Spencer Green. file)" border="0"/></a></p><br clear="all"/> (Time.com) http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/timeus/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/time/20080626/us_time/theincredibleediblefrontlawn time/20080626/theincredibleediblefrontlawn Time.com Thu, 26 Jun 2008 10:10:00 GMT <p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/timeus/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/time/20080626/us_time/theincredibleediblefrontlawn"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/us.yimg.com/p/net/20080626/capt.18e95901793ed4cd3ccb44fbf00e5575.jpeg?x=130&y=73&q=85&sig=iH1eCRzeBTsgNIwCICPg7A--" align="left" height="73" width="130" alt="The Ridgleys stand on their newly planted 'edible lawn' out front of their house in Baltimore, Maryland. (Photo courtesy of Fritz Haeg Studio)" border="0" /></a>Time.com - Amid food scares and environmental woes, some Americans are transforming their neatly trimmed front yards into a showcase for nature's bounty</p><br clear="all"/> <p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/timeus/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/time/20080626/us_time/theincredibleediblefrontlawn"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/us.yimg.com/p/net/20080626/capt.18e95901793ed4cd3ccb44fbf00e5575.jpeg?x=130&y=73&q=85&sig=iH1eCRzeBTsgNIwCICPg7A--" align="left" height="73" width="130" alt="photo" title="The Ridgleys stand on their newly planted 'edible lawn' out front of their house in Baltimore, Maryland. (Photo courtesy of Fritz Haeg Studio)" border="0"/></a></p><br clear="all"/> (Time.com)