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...SPECIALIST JIM BATCHELOR...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Three Roads Back | 3/13/2005 | See Source »

...Batchelor sits in his darkened living room and tells an infantryman's tales of bugs and snakes, leaky gas masks and indestructible humvees. Since he returned from Iraq, he hasn't been able to sit still, so as he talks, his hand constantly worries at the filmy floral curtains, twisting and turning the fabric. His wife Kristy, laughing along with his stories, quietly reaches out, frees the curtains from his grasp and places his hand back on the couch. Twist, reach, release. Twist, reach, release. Finally, Kristy gently rests her hand on her husband's and leaves it there...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Three Roads Back | 3/13/2005 | See Source »

...Since Batchelor, 24, returned last April to his home in Copperas Cove, Texas, with a bullet wound between the eyes, his marriage has been stripped of intimacy. The couple puts on a good show in the company of others, the two say, but when alone they're either silent or arguing. Once giddy newlyweds desperate to have a family, they now rarely share a bed. "I went through the motions a few times, but I didn't feel anything," says Batchelor. "I just don't care...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Three Roads Back | 3/13/2005 | See Source »

...feels nothing--not even when his wife, a uterine-cancer survivor, talks about the baby she lost, five months into a high-risk pregnancy, when she found out Batchelor had been shot. "When he first got back, he literally told me that my husband had died in Iraq and this new person was here," says Kristy. "It's true." She hopes they will reconcile but is no longer sure they're a match...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Three Roads Back | 3/13/2005 | See Source »

...packing on as many pounds as possible. In addition, not everybody gains weight the same way, so a drug targeting one pathway will probably not work for all overweight people. "The whole feeding mechanism is a survival mechanism, and it is strongly defended for that purpose," explains Ken Batchelor of GlaxoSmithKline. "What we are attempting to do with pharmacology is to reverse that process...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: America's Obesity Crisis:Pills in the Pipeline | 6/7/2004 | See Source »

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