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...doesn't board certification guarantee my doctor knows everything already and doesn't need reps?" Most people know that doctors take something like the lawyers'bar exam, called specialty boards, to get certified. Since the mid-'80s certification is not even permanent; pass the bar and you're a lawyer for life, but get a great grade on your boards and guess what - you have to take them again 10 years later or lose your certification. And that's every 10 years until you quit or die. Board exams are really hard - they stress rare things and subtle differences that...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Attack of the Pharma Babes | 1/2/2007 | See Source »

...deterrent threat that helped keep the peace during the cold war. With one exception, when it has gone into combat, it has sooner or later retreated in defeat and left behind a mess to be cleaned up later. This happened in Vietnam in the '70s, Lebanon in the '80s and Somalia in the '90s. The exception was the liberation of Kuwait, but this achievement was devalued by President Bush Jr., who clearly regarded the situation in the area as unfinished family business that he had to revisit. So it is no surprise that the U.S. is now looking...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Game Plans for Gates | 1/2/2007 | See Source »

...cricket there are two types of bowlers: fast and slow. The former tend to blast batsmen out with pace, the latter to bamboozle them, spinning the ball off the pitch so as to deceive and induce batsmen into a false shot. In the 1970s and '80s, when I was a kid growing up in Australia, my friends and I idolized the quickies, most of them from the unbeatable West Indian team that dominated the era. Tall, toned, with a swagger and menacing smirk that spoke straight to a 13-year-old boy, the finest fast bowlers were as cool...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Heroes Are Only Human | 1/2/2007 | See Source »

...Saddam's personal hand in the collective punishment that followed the attempt on his life. His death comes in the middle of another trial that had Saddam and other key figures from his regime facing charges of launching chemical attacks against tens of thousands of Kurds in the late '80s. That trial will continue without Saddam as a defendant...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Saddam Hussein Is Dead | 12/29/2006 | See Source »

...such sentiments and the attitudes of the current crop of leading artists, like Zhang Xiaogang, Zhu Wei and Fang Lijun, couldn't be starker. Mostly now in their 40s, many of the artists suffered through the tail end of the Cultural Revolution. The cultural flowering that followed in the '80s was another casualty of the Tiananmen Square massacre in 1989. Many artists left the country. Now back, they're thrilled at being rewarded instead of hounded for expressing their feelings in their work. Fundamental issues like politics, ideology and spirituality remain important themes. Images of Mao Zedong, the Red Guards...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Great China Sale | 12/17/2006 | See Source »

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