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...Victoria Reich Albuquerque, New Mexico, U.S. While reading your report on happiness, I felt a touch of sorrow that science seems to be nosing its way into every aspect of humanity. Can't we go back to the days when people lived passionately without wondering what chemicals in the brain made them happy? Since when has happiness been a technical thing? Janet Ma Rochester, Michigan, U.S. Labeling the Insurgency In "hunt for the bomb factories," about the massive weapons depots around Baghdad [Feb. 7], TIME referred to "nationalist fighters" who use the arms for their deadly operations. You should reserve...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters | 2/22/2005 | See Source »

...Hodgkin's disease, an often curable cancer of the lymph system, which his doctors say he has a 70% chance of surviving; in Washington. The chairman of the Judiciary Committee, Specter will continue to work while undergoing chemotherapy over the next six to eight months. "I have beaten a brain tumor, bypass surgery and many tough political opponents, and I'm going to beat this too," he said...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones Feb. 28, 2005 | 2/20/2005 | See Source »

...knows that because of his nature he will not be accepted. So he pulls the strings behind the scenes." But he has his own, odd kind of principle. In the first season's most arresting scene, he smothers to death a preacher who is dying slowly of a brain tumor. The act is tender and cruel, merciful and selfish (the reverend is taking up a bed in the Gem), and McShane simply leaves us to ponder which motivation is dominant...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Television: So Wicked, He's Good | 2/20/2005 | See Source »

...head shots. But he makes it feel like a movie and not something you could see on TV. It isn't just MTV drivel. And not that there's anything wrong with MTV. I guess ... well, there is to me because I think that stuff is fatiguing to the brain. If we're going to have a pop culture that's just going to be a lot of flash images, we're never going to get a chance to look at anything...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Clint Eastwood on "Baby" | 2/20/2005 | See Source »

...extravagant male locks, defined in the state media as exceeding 5 cm in length, are a bourgeois affectation that could undermine socialism. In a televised campaign called "Let's Trim Our Hair According to the Socialist Lifestyle," citizens are told that long hair breeds body odor and deprives the brain of oxygen. The official recommended style is now a 1.5-cm brush cut called the "virile spirit...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Dictatorial Dynasty | 2/20/2005 | See Source »

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