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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...detail symptoms like urinary and fecal incontinence that are not apparent in a routine physical exam. Pelvic-organ prolapse, in severe cases, may be obvious to a doctor, Nygaard said, but in some cases women don't necessarily feel discomfort, so patients need to explain their symptoms and ask for a physical exam...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Study: Incontinence a Big Problem Among Women | 9/17/2008 | See Source »

...proprietor of the little Scarborough hotel where I was staying - a maternal Scottish woman who apologized sweetly for the lack of Internet service - stopped by my breakfast table to ask what I thought of the play I'd seen the previous night. "It's one of Alan's, isn't it?" she said. Then, after hearing my favorable review, she added a bit wistfully: "I don't know what we'll do when he retires completely. It won't be the same without...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Alan Ayckbourn's Curtain Call | 9/17/2008 | See Source »

...felt quite disappointed after reading McCain's interview because of his attitude toward the interviewer. Sometimes a journalist has to ask questions whose answers he's supposed to know, but they may be interesting for the readers. In my opinion, "Read it in my books" is not an appropriate answer, especially coming from a public personality. Juan Moreno, SEVILLE, SPAIN...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: McCain: Temper of the Times | 9/17/2008 | See Source »

...anti-Semitic to ask why the Palestinians should pay the price for the ghastly crime of the Germans?” Matory wrote in a Crimson opinion piece last September. “Why were the property rights of the German perpetrators sacrosanct and those of the guiltless Palestinians adjudged an acceptable casualty...

Author: By Bonnie J. Kavoussi, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Matory To Join Duke Faculty | 9/16/2008 | See Source »

...first few pages of what is the best novel written since I've been old enough to read. It's a circular 1,079-page book about the impossibility of communication that is so wondrously complex that when I got to meet with its editor, Michael Pietsch, and ask him a basic question about the plot, he couldn't even tell...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Appreciation: David Foster Wallace 1962-2008 | 9/14/2008 | See Source »

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