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Your cover story on abortion was a??good attempt to walk the middle line between two sides of what can be deemed an irreconcilable issue. It is encouraging to see the two sides of the abortion debate willing to sit down and talk inoffensively about their serious differences. But there was no mention of the disproportionate number of minority fetuses being aborted. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention reports that three times as many black fetuses as white ones are aborted. This alarming ratio continues to grow even as the total number of abortions declines. What accounts...
...the neuroses that afflicts a??youth-obsessed society is the fear that childhood isn't what it used to be. Every few years a new book or magazine article warns that kids are being rushed through childhood with barely a second to skin a knee. This month brings three new offerings in the lost-childhood genre: a report in the journal Pediatrics on the loss of free playtime and two books from David Elkind, a psychologist whose The Hurried Child--first published in 1981 and now available in a 25th-anniversary edition--has made him the dean of too-fast...
...knew that cows had a??fantasy life? These two, Joanna and Susanna, chewing their cud in a pasture, imagine a day spent as rambunctious cowgirls, roaming the range, roping steers, riding in a rodeo, dancing at a hoedown and singing by the campfire ("Oh, Buckamoo girls, won't you come out tonight, and dance by the light of the moooooon?"). Kelley's lively rhymes and Curry's comically stylized paintings evoke the fun and flavor of daydreams. A flight of sublime silliness...
...excellent, tough, heroic reporting. But from the production offices, where the tone and packaging of the news are set, came hints that, in wartime, the Fourth Estate was on the side of the good guys. Newscasts were adorned with American flags, and press outlets (including, initially, TIME) prematurely made a??John Wayne figure of Private First Class Jessica Lynch...
Statins have earned a??reputation lately as a wonder drug. Not only do they protect against heart disease by controlling the amount of cholesterol the liver churns out, but they can also dampen the inflammatory flare-ups that contribute to everything from arthritis to heart attacks. Early studies even hint that statins may also work on the plaques and tangles that cause Alzheimer's disease. But all drugs have their limits. An analysis of 12 trials found that patients who had taken statins within two weeks of having a heart attack or angina did not reduce their risk of dying...