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...before there were international organizations like the U.N., there were religions-communities of faith with a global reach, whose adherents tramped from one end of the earth to the other, saving souls. To be sure, in their zeal to convert, missionaries often mixed faith with cruelty, as Spain's blood-drenched conquest of Mexico in the name of God abundantly proved. But as Nayan Chanda of the Yale Center for the Study of Globalization argued in his recent book Bound Together, the great religions were also intimately associated with the growth of trade and human contact. "For all the horror...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Tony Blair's Leap of Faith | 5/28/2008 | See Source »

...into elementary schools and we literally change what's on the menu in the cafeterias and what's given for breakfast. We've been able to change the progression of weight gain and blood pressure, and we're looking at various other things. We think it may even help academic performances as well. But the thing is, kids are eating often pure starch and transfat, bad fat diets. Starch, sugar, and bad fats. They are not exercising the way kids used to exercise. The combination is a disaster, and it's not just cosmetic. I feel very strongly that...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The South Beach Diet Doctor Is Back | 5/27/2008 | See Source »

Jane says she became curious about vaccines after she took her first child for a series of vaccinations at four months old. "It felt like they were giving her four shots. It felt like it was too much. The next day she had blood in her stool and it freaked me out. The doctor said 'Well, maybe it was the shots, but we don't know...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: How My Son Spread the Measles | 5/25/2008 | See Source »

...documents, which were reviewed by a pool reporter from the Washington Post, spelled out the details of this prognosis in excruciating detail. They described ear wax removal, a fungal infection on his toe, and his occasional experience of blood in his urine, which was treated as an enlarged prostate and stones in his bladder. They noted that McCain reports sleeping five to six hours a night, drinks two alcoholic beverages a month, and occasionally experiences vertigo when he stands, a common condition his doctors said did not put him at increased risk for stroke. A doctor's visit in March...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: McCain's Healthy Prognosis | 5/23/2008 | See Source »

...McCain regularly takes four medications: aspirin to prevent blood clots; Hydrochlorothiazide, for kidney stone prevention; Amiloride, to preserve potassium in the blood stream; and Simvastatin to lower his cholesterol. He also sometimes takes Ambien CR to help him sleep and Zyrtec, an antihistamine for nasal allergies...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: McCain's Healthy Prognosis | 5/23/2008 | See Source »

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