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...MPAA to approve a version with some shock value and on their star-auteur to throw the board a few boners and get the damn R. Baron Cohen shoots a lot of footage in his docucomedies, and, the studio spokesman told Waxman, "With the quantity of material available, I cannot foresee a problem. It's not even April and the film comes out July 10, so it's nonsense to say there's a struggle of any kind...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sacha Baron Cohen and the Censors: Will Brüno Be NC-17? | 3/31/2009 | See Source »

...Doctors say there is no biological reason that donating eggs would cause infertility, but they also cannot say for sure that it doesn't. The long-term health effects of egg donation have never actually been studied, in large part because the high cost of studies doesn't "seem justified in terms of what the possible risks [of the procedure] might be," according to Sean Tipton, spokesman for the American Society for Reproductive Medicine (ASRM). He points out that egg donors undergo the same drug treatment as IVF patients - hormone injections and other drugs that stimulate follicles, promote egg maturation...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: As Egg Donations Mount, So Do Health Concerns | 3/31/2009 | See Source »

...other profession would it be considered acceptable to fire employees solely for being new at the job or exploring time off, regardless of their job performance. Indeed, research consistently reaffirms the strong connection between teacher quality and student achievement; schools cannot afford to lose effective teachers because of seniority rules. Moreover, because teacher pay is also related to seniority—and recent hires have the lowest salaries—cutting only the newest hires means that school districts must lay off more teachers in order to balance their budgets, further straining school resources and driving up class sizes...

Author: By Adrienne Y. Lee | Title: Scalpels, Not Hatchets | 3/30/2009 | See Source »

...Ultimately, feminists cannot opine on the precarious line between sexy and sexism without legislating the location of that line itself and, therein, relinquishing all claims to the universality of their conclusion. Indeed, modern feminism, with its valorization of the lived experiences of women, esteems individual subjectivity too highly to provide a satisfactory answer. That is not to say that this valorization is an inherently bad, or even flawed, component of contemporary feminist thought. Women should have the right to choose the manner in which they express their sexuality, regardless of the content of their choice (unless, of course, it results...

Author: By Courtney A. Fiske | Title: ‘Sexiness’ or ‘Sexism’? | 3/30/2009 | See Source »

...outlook is shared by the moderate leftist parties that govern in Latin America's biggest economies, such as Brazil, Argentina and Chile. And the current global economic crisis would appear to be an auspicious moment for political leaders whose central message has always been that the free market alone cannot solve the world's problems. (See pictures of the global financial crisis...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: At a Summit of Center-Left Leaders, Hailing a 'Progressive Moment' | 3/30/2009 | See Source »

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