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...what lingers after you finish reading The Big Necessity is characters like Champaben, an outcast woman from the untouchable Dalit caste in India whose job is to clean the country's dry, filthy latrines. She regularly contracts dysentery, giardiasis and brain fever from her exposure to human waste. No one deserves that fate, and as George makes clear, the very least we can do for every person on this planet is to give them a place...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Toilet Tales: Inside the World of Waste | 11/18/2008 | See Source »

After years of conflicting studies on gingko biloba's benefits for memory loss, a definitive clinical trial finally concludes that the extract does not prevent brain decline...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Gingko Biloba Does Not Prevent Alzheimer's | 11/18/2008 | See Source »

...Huetter's patient has not received antivirals for two years and remains virus-free even in the known HIV hiding spots of brain and rectal tissue, according to Huetter's tests. But many researchers remain skeptical about whether these tests have been thorough enough. Dr. Andrew Badley, director of the HIV and immunology research lab at the Mayo Clinic, told the Associated Press, "A lot more scrutiny from a lot of different biological samples would be required to say it's not present...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Can a Bone-Marrow Transplant Halt HIV? | 11/13/2008 | See Source »

...cooking, I still do all the hiring and firing of the staff,” he says. “I do TVs and radios. My father is more like the brain of the business—he develops recipes, names the burgers. He drops in for a couple of hours every day, still...

Author: By Youho T. Myong, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Bartley's Burger Cottage, Harvard Square Icon, Keeps the Grill Aflame | 11/13/2008 | See Source »

...familiar spiritual lightness spreading out from the back of his knees. This had been happening at regular intervals ever since he and Roxanna had saved one another in the swirling river currents. He sank to his knees and began to pray.Visions of heavenly grace intermingled in his great brain with images of Roxanna. What a garden of delights they had begun to cultivate together, between the two of them! In what a diversity of places had the seeds of their mutual salvation been sown: in the bed, in the carriage, at the window, behind the curtains, under...

Author: By Lesley R. Winters, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: THE STABLE BOY: Chapter 13 | 11/13/2008 | See Source »

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