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...right along a railway line. In his 1962 novel The Pretenders, foremost contemporary Filipino novelist F. Sionil José describes the street as one of "intractable damnation," and it's not hard to see why. Shanties still line the same steel tracks on which José's tortured antihero Antonio Samson kills himself, after learning that his vapid high-society wife is having an affair. On a recent afternoon, naked boys skipped rope near piles of rotting trash. Meals bubbled over open fires, just feet from railroad ballast...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Manila Through the Eyes of F. Sionil José | 2/5/2009 | See Source »

...question is why. The authors hypothesize that the decline in breast cancer rates was largely due to the sudden stoppage of hormone therapy. But this correlation, first presented at the San Antonio Breast Cancer Conference in December, has been met with skepticism by other researchers in the community. They raised concerns about drawing a cause-and-effect relationship, since the sharpest decline in women's breast cancer rates occurred in the year after the WHI was halted and its data released, between 2002 and 2003 - too soon to see such a dramatic change in a complex disease like breast cancer...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Halting Hormone Therapy Reduces Breast Cancer Risk Quickly | 2/4/2009 | See Source »

...between the desire to demonstrate the glories of their national cuisine (to say nothing of their own creativity) and the wish to please a jury that tends to favor the classic French style is precisely the challenge. "If you're playing soccer, you can't use your hands," says Antonio Saura, a Spanish filmmaker whose 2007 documentary El Pollo, el Pez, y el Cangrejo Real featured the competition. "The Bocuse is the same way: you have to play by their rules...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Food Fight at the Bocuse d'Or | 1/29/2009 | See Source »

...potential Senate seat, leaving Perry and Hutchison to fight it out in the governor's race. "If people knew it was going to be [just] Rick Perry, you'd see folks willing to put their name forward," Democratic state representative Leticia Van de Putte told the San Antonio Express. "People understand in a general election that Kay Bailey Hutchison is such an intense brand, it's hard to get market share on that one." (See pictures of Barack Obama's Inauguration...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Bush Returns to a Divided Texas Republican Party | 1/25/2009 | See Source »

...With Republicans holding only a two-seat margin in the statehouse, 11 of the disaffected Republicans crossed the aisle and joined the 74 house Democrats to oust Craddick from the speakership as the state legislature convened last week. The new speaker, San Antonio Republican Joe Straus, is a moderate scion of an old Republican family with ties going back to John Tower and George H.W. Bush. The Straus victory is evidence of a shift in the GOP power base as urban voters gain a larger voice. Royal Masset, a longtime Texas Republican analyst, says the GOP will continue to fare...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Bush Returns to a Divided Texas Republican Party | 1/25/2009 | See Source »

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