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...from underwater scenes off Catalina Island, transvestites in New Orleans and Braille-enhanced black-and-whites as well as portraits, nudes, landscapes, travel shots, abstracts, collages, and everything else you might expect from a "sighted" photographer. Except the subtext and context is blindness: the photographers are legally blind, some born without sight or with limited vision, and others who have lost their vision over time. And that is why, argues the man who organized the show, they are at the very heart...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Art and Heart of Blind Photographers | 5/17/2009 | See Source »

...Others believe the problem lies in the upbringing of children born after the fall of the Soviet Union. "Students today are more interested in money and dancing," says Yuri Bogomolov, 79, a former scientist at a Soviet-era aerospace lab. "We have a lot of patriotism, but the U.S. has a lot of money [to put into its space program]," he adds as he watches a clip from White Sun of the Desert, a Soviet action-adventure film that cosmonauts traditionally - and superstitiously - watch before blasting off, ever since Gagarin watched it and returned alive from his first space flight...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Can a Space Museum Help Russia Get Its Glory Back? | 5/17/2009 | See Source »

There's nothing more natural than being born. There's also nothing quite as fraught. A whole lot can go wrong during that long and tortuous journey from the womb to the world. Modern medicine can eliminate a lot of the risk, but in doing so, it can also turn what could be a joyous experience for the mother into the equivalent of an all-day appendectomy...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Doctors Versus Midwives: The Birth Wars Rage On | 5/16/2009 | See Source »

...kind in the United States." Even Cheyney's critics would have to agree that, if nothing else, she does walk the walk. She spoke with Time, but only briefly, grabbing a brief break while her infant daughter was taking a nap. Her one-week-old baby was born at home...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Doctors Versus Midwives: The Birth Wars Rage On | 5/16/2009 | See Source »

...Born June 19, 1945 in Rangoon. Her father, Aung San, was commander of the Burmese Independent Army and is considered the father of modern Burma. He was assassinated when...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Aung San Suu Kyi | 5/15/2009 | See Source »

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