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...such fare, eventually growing into a teen who, by his own description, was "fat, uncool and hardly popular with the girls." Although the 42nd President surely remedied the coolness and girl problems, the matter of the fat dogged him ever after. From his McDonald's jones to the quadruple-bypass surgery that eventually laid him low, Clinton has long been a one-man case study of the U.S.'s food crisis--the compulsiveness, the consequences, even the shame...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: How Bill Put the Fizz in the Fight Against Fat | 5/7/2006 | See Source »

...your zip code, city, or the name of the hospital and see which hospitals have fully implemented recommended quality and safety "leaps" for areas like ICU staffing and reduction of medical errors. You can also check the annual volume and outcomes of various high risk procedures, including coronary artery bypass surgery; high risk baby deliveries and neonatal ICU care. The aim: to show the health care industry that "big leaps in health care safety, quality and customer value will be recognized and rewarded...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Choosing a Doctor and a Hospital | 4/24/2006 | See Source »

...have had detrimental effects on those patients, according to a study conducted by a team of Harvard Medical School (HMS) researchers in conjunction with other medical experts. The study, which began almost ten years ago and was released in April’s American Heart Journal, divided 1,802 bypass surgery patients into three groups. Two groups were prayed for: one group of patients was informed they were being prayed for, and the other group was not informed either way. The third group’s members did not have strangers pray for them and were also not informed either...

Author: By Pamela T. Freed, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Prayer Could Hurt Hearts | 4/5/2006 | See Source »

MANY IRANIANS POINT TO THE POLITICAL ambitions of Ahmadinejad. The hard-line President who just squeezed past more experienced candidates to take office has seized on the nuclear issue to cement his claim to power, according to some top government advisers. He can bypass the ruling clerics by appealing to the street, framing the right to nuclear energy as a populist cause and the centerpiece of his campaign to restore revolutionary ideals--and solidify his base in the military and revolutionary apparatus. That requires a return to the 1980s atmosphere of siege, rallying Iranians by whipping up animosity toward...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Will Iran Get The Bomb? | 3/26/2006 | See Source »

Parental involvement requirements are not only ineffective; they are also dangerous. Teenagers unable to confer with their parents must secure a court waiver of parental consent, called a “judicial bypass.” This process almost invariably requires two to four weeks to complete. After the first trimester—when a delay of only a few days can vastly ”increase the risks involved in the procedure,” according to the American Medical Association—a month-long postponement is hardly conscionable...

Author: By Paul R. Katz | Title: No Consent to Notification | 3/23/2006 | See Source »

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