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...Jersey's solidly Republican 5th district that has been GOP property for decades, and there are almost twice as many registered Republicans as Democrats in the affluent district. But who'd want to run for the party of an epically unpopular president when the opponent is a blind rabbi...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Rabbi in Congress? | 7/18/2008 | See Source »

...countries top 20%. What's more, the gene variant is most common in West Africa, but HIV-infection rates in that region remain very low compared to those in Eastern and Southern Africa, where the disease has festered longest - and where government and medical officials have often turned a blind eye to risky behaviors in the population...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Genetic Variant Raises HIV Risk | 7/17/2008 | See Source »

...Montana lawyer with eyebrows like hamsters who still counts as a rookie since he's yet to win office after 15 tries. Among the Democratic youngsters, there's a former Republican Iraq-war vet in Minnesota, a former ranch hand and Yale Ph.D. in Nebraska and Dennis Shulman, a blind rabbi who easily won the Democratic nomination for the Fifth District in New Jersey. "We keep sending career politicians to Washington, and what do we have to show for it? A big mess," Shulman says. "It may very well take a blind man to show Congress the light...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Throw the Bums Out! | 7/17/2008 | See Source »

...Binge-drinking has increasingly come under the media spotlight. Multiple cases of teenage students turning up to school blind drunk have been reported, as have incidents of young people suffering temporary alcohol-induced comas. Just last month, an 18-year-old student in central France drank himself to death while celebrating his passage of the baccalaureate exam...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: French Combat Youth Binge-Drinking | 7/17/2008 | See Source »

...safety issues--and less responsive to the needs of the airlines. Stifled continually by the FAA's political prowess, Schiavo eventually decided that the best way to bring about reform at the agency was to resign and tell her story. In the following excerpts from her new book, Flying Blind, Flying Safe, she describes how her work at the Transportation Department left her "dismayed, disillusioned and afraid for the flying public...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FLYING INTO TROUBLE | 7/14/2008 | See Source »

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