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...also suggests that physicians and other health-care providers ask their patients more probing questions about alcohol consumption. Too often, she says, the issue is addressed perfunctorily: "Do you drink?" Check. "Socially?" Check. Then the doctor moves on. Instead, Nixon thinks providers should instigate a conversation, asking questions that raise self-awareness: Are you still having wine with dinner? How much? Why? "It doesn't make you 'old' to monitor your drinking," Nixon says. Just smart...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Older Drinkers Less Able to Judge When They're Drunk | 3/5/2009 | See Source »

...Ask 10 serious movie people who the best living director is, and you'll probably get 10 different answers. Ask 10 serious comics fans who the best living comics writer is, and you might get just one: Alan Moore, the toweringly tall, vastly bearded Englishman who wrote Watchmen. (You'll also get 10 lengthy explanations of why that's the case--there is no bore like the Watchmen bore. I should know...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Watchmen Fan's Notes | 3/5/2009 | See Source »

...think people can feel my passion, that I want to help them," Orman said a few minutes later. "When the woman who serves food lights up when she sees me--ask her if she lights up when she sees the other talent...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Suze Orman: Queen of the Crisis | 3/5/2009 | See Source »

...hoping for the biggest Nanny party tonight I’ve ever been to.” Dressed to party indeed, Drescher left in good spirits with some final words of wisdom. “Always consult multiple physicians, and never be afraid to ask questions,” Drescher said. “One of my doctors basically told me, ‘Honey, you’ve got the tits of an 18-year-old—you’re fine. Just drink some gin every night.’ There I was with perky breasts going...

Author: By Catherine J. Zielinski, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: The Nanny Diaries | 3/4/2009 | See Source »

...News found that even in a country largely supportive of Obama, most voters remain skeptical that his stimulus plans will do much good. Nevertheless, Democrats scampered to make Limbaugh the new mascot of the GOP and thus link the word conservative with the word failure. Gibbs urged reporters to ask if all Republicans "want to see the President's economic agenda fail." Michael Steele, the new party chairman, rushed to say no. Limbaugh, Steele said, is "an entertainer" given to "incendiary" and "ugly" overstatements. Like other GOP leaders who have tried to dismiss the broadcaster, however, Steele soon felt obliged...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Criticizing Rush Limbaugh: Over the Line? | 3/4/2009 | See Source »

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