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...open window, a dirty towel suspended over his chest. His nurse says the boy is quiet when he's alone and never cries out in pain. "He just wants to go outside Iraq to get treatment," she says. "And he just wants to see his sisters." In the calmest of times, it would be difficult to treat a boy in Ali's condition in Iraq, but the current chaos has made it impossible for aid organizations to get medicine to hospitals. Ali's doctor says the boy is in danger of dying within weeks. It's hard to imagine something...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Boy In The Photograph | 4/21/2003 | See Source »

...living cell bustles with molecular activity. Lilliputian protein motors ferry goods and services. Enzymes curl and unfurl. Even on its calmest days, the DNA double-helix twists, unwinds and wiggles like a loopy spring...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Molecular Mechanics: Protein Wizard | 8/20/2001 | See Source »

Morning Prayer Service turns out to be the calmest part of a whirlwind schedule for the popular minister. He's meeting with chaplains from the University Ministry in the morning, counseling members of the Faculty in the afternoon, serving tea, writing commentaries and planning speaking tours well into the night...

Author: By Alexis B. Offen, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: 25 Years for the Preacher Man | 12/20/1999 | See Source »

...songs on Double Live are mostly good, home-cooked fun, but sitting through the 26-song album is a bit like enduring a 26-course meal. The best song is the calmest: Brooks' solemn reading of Bob Dylan's To Make You Feel My Love. The album's biggest flaw is American Honky-Tonk Bar Association, a demagogic number that mocks welfare recipients. A true populist would show empathy for people who can't afford his albums...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Super Tuesday! | 11/23/1998 | See Source »

...walking around holding up two signs because it looks like there are twice as many of us that way. And we're in a panic, complete emotional meltdown, because we're worried we're going to lose so badly. And that was when he was the calmest and most gentle with everyone...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE SOUL OF DOLE | 8/19/1996 | See Source »

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