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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...appears that events may have overtaken Charlie Norwood. For more than six years, the Georgia Republican was the standard-bearer in any debate over a patients? bill of rights, pushing for an expanded right to sue negligent HMOs in state and federal court...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: What's Behind the Bush-Norwood Patients' Bill Of Rights Deal | 8/2/2001 | See Source »

...fertility clinics are not the only place where embryos are routinely destroyed in the course of making a baby. Every year, in the U.S. alone, nature (or God) kills hundreds of thousands of embryos so young that the bearer didn't even know she was pregnant. About 15% of pregnancies end in miscarriage, most of them in the embryo stage. Although there is research going on to reduce miscarriages for the sake of would-be mothers, there is no big crusade to save the lives of these lost embryos...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: If You Believe Embryos Are Humans... | 6/25/2001 | See Source »

...Shenzhen branch of the Southeast Asia Certificate Co., Liu Xingyun offers a panoply of marriage certificates, drivers' licenses and even a document certifying that the bearer has had her fallopian tubes snipped. The most popular pieces of paper are college diplomas. Last year, census-takers found 600,000 people nationwide who said they had used spurious university degrees. "No one has time to go to school anymore," says a 21-year-old impatiently waiting for a steel engraving machine to roll out an accounting degree from Peking University. "I know I'm good at math, so I might as well...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: China's Phony Papers | 6/11/2001 | See Source »

...more brutal. Over the past year, the rebels spent their ill-gotten riches on firepower: M-16s, Uzis, mortars, cannons, jeeps and the 50-seat speedboat which, with three monstrous 750- horsepower outboards, could outrun anything in the Philippine navy. The faction of Abu Sayyaf (literally "Bearer of the Sword") responsible for the raid has an unparalleled reputation for ruthlessness: when Philippine troops attacked last year, the group beheaded two hostages, including a Catholic priest, after first gouging out their eyes...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Crossfire | 6/11/2001 | See Source »

...traders better get used to it. Although three years of drought have ravished the Dhar countryside and electricity is only a recent phenomenon, the computer project, known as Gyandoot, or Bearer of Knowledge, shows that innovation can thrive among poverty and illiteracy. The $45,000 community-financed project - the brainchild of district collector Rajesh Rajora, who supervises it with Nitesh Vyas, CEO of the local government - strings together villages through a series of 34 rural cyberkiosks and links them to the district administration through an intranet. Half the users earn less than $300 a year each...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Bridging the Gap | 6/4/2001 | See Source »

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