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...spring will it be totally green." Overlooking his bone-dry club, dotted with almond trees, he adds: "Let's just say we're going back to the origins of golf. Natural surroundings, just like the conditions and design of the course." Currently Quijorna has about 285 members who fully accept the withered look of their playground, which consumes no more liters of water than an average household in a year. "At first sight, it's shocking. But at least you feel like a part of nature. It's not an artificial surface you're playing on. It's perfect," says...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Hitting The Green | 7/18/2006 | See Source »

...current crisis, however, he has come across as anything but a dove. He has heartily endorsed the now prevailing attitude that Israel must strike not only at those who actually attack it, but also those who support, accept or do not contest their adversaries. In some ways, his political evolution is a reflection of a societal move away from multiparty approaches and toward unilateralism, a feeling that Israel must take matters into its own hands and has no choice but to fight. In Gaza and now in Lebanon, he has approved harsh responses, like the bombing of a Gaza power...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Former Dove Who's Directing Israel's War | 7/17/2006 | See Source »

...them. "So, Mike-got any summer plans?" "Why, yes, next Tuesday I'm having brain surgery. How about you?" In the age of angioplasty and Lipitor, even the heart has lost much of its metaphorical power, at least in the medical context. People are willing to accept it as a collection of muscles and blood vessels rather than-or at least in addition to-the seat of various emotions. But the brain remains the seat of the self itself in physical reality as well as in metaphor. And the brain as metaphor looms so large that there isn't much...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Yes, It Really Is Brain Surgery | 7/16/2006 | See Source »

...Apac district hospital near Alenga, where THETA has encouraged the nurses to accept traditional approaches, it's not uncommon for patients to ask a healer for supplemental herbs or to check themselves out to seek traditional remedies. But even in Apac, the doctors are not so accommodating. Okello carefully fills out referral forms provided by THETA, but they often come back with no comments or diagnosis. "We don't get the feedback," says Okello, who takes it upon himself to make sure patients are following their regimens. "Maybe they feel it time wasting...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Calling All Healers | 7/16/2006 | See Source »

...them. "So, Mike--got any summer plans?" "Why, yes, next Tuesday I'm having brain surgery. How about you?" In the age of angioplasty and Lipitor, even the heart has lost much of its metaphorical power, at least in the medical context. People are willing to accept it as a collection of muscles and blood vessels rather than--or at least in addition to--the seat of various emotions. But the brain remains the seat of the self itself in physical reality as well as in metaphor. And the brain as metaphor looms so large that there isn't much...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Yes, It Really Is Brain Surgery | 7/16/2006 | See Source »

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