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...nearby Ramstein Air Force Base. Since the initial U.S. invasion of Afghanistan in 2001, the hospital has treated 10,820 battle wounded. While Obama toured the grounds, the public-address system played a children's nursery chime. It signaled that a woman at the hospital had just given birth; soldiers say it happens all the time. (See pictures of Buchenwald concentration camp at LIFE.com...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Obama at Buchenwald: A Message to Those Who Forget, or Deny | 6/5/2009 | See Source »

...that exists within the womb, especially in the later stages of pregnancy. Late-term abortions - no more than a few percent of the total performed in the U.S. - were Tiller's specialty. These are usually hard cases, sometimes the result of rape or incest or the discovery of severe birth defects. But they are, without question, the taking of a life. At the same time, the pro?life community should concede that sex education and the widespread availability of morning-after pills and condoms are necessary if we're going to prevent these tragedies. (See more about abortion...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Return of the Hot-Button Issues | 6/4/2009 | See Source »

August, 1985 marked the birth of an independent union self-organized by Harvard’s “forgotten workers.” It was nascent in every sense of the word: a couple hundred staffers led by a few unpaid organizers, with no financial backing and no official space. The organization lacked even a name...

Author: By Esther I. Yi, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Amid Crisis, Workers Defy Union Image | 6/3/2009 | See Source »

...Some of my technology shortcomings arise no doubt due to the date of my birth. When I went to college I was outfitted with a state-of-the-art Smith Corona Silent Super typewriter. It was light green and came in a hard tan carrying case. I would never have thought to call it a manual typewriter because, of course, all typewriters were manual, right? Thus when I took a typing test for my first job and was confronted with a typewriter where all of the keys were stuck, it took a stunned HR person to introduce...

Author: By Judith H. Kidd | Title: The Restart Option | 6/2/2009 | See Source »

...places. Why then do we need cohort studies in Africa? We suggest at least five reasons. First, there may be unpredictable interactions between the simultaneous infectious and non-communicable disease epidemics unique to Africa. Second, it is important to determine population specific disease burdens in a region with few birth and death records and other health statistics. Third, humans evolved in East Africa, making African genetic diversity greater than elsewhere in the world. Studying the interaction between environmental factors and genes elucidates disease mechanisms. Fourth, the unparalleled geographic, social, and cultural diversity may reveal risk factors as yet unknown...

Author: By Shona Dalal and Michelle D. Holmes | Title: Time for Cohort Studies in Africa | 6/2/2009 | See Source »

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