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Diarrhea has been ignored for decades. For many people outside Africa, the continent's calamitous health problems are largely defined by two epidemics: AIDS and malaria. There is a World AIDS Day and a World Malaria Day, and countless medical researchers work to combat the two diseases. In 2008 about...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Can One Pill Tame the Illness No One Wants to Talk About? | 8/17/2009 | See Source »

8 | California Tech Titans Untangled In a sign of the deepening rivalry between two of Silicon Valley's giants, Google CEO Eric Schmidt stepped down from Apple's board of directors after a three-year stint. With the companies increasingly squaring off over lucrative markets like the mobile-computing field...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The World | 8/17/2009 | See Source »

'In a sense, it's like turning off the world for a year.' ART ROSENFELD, a member of the California Energy Commission, saying that turning all roofs a lighter, more heat-reflective color will save the equivalent of 24 billion metric tons of carbon dioxide emissions within two decades

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Verbatim | 8/17/2009 | See Source »

Arvedlund has bragging rights: her story in Barron's in May 2001 was an early warning, but ultimately it failed to foil the plot. Her account will delight those more interested in the scam than in the man. Arvedlund goes down the list of entities that were on notice about...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Bernie Madoff — Publisher's Best Friend? | 8/17/2009 | See Source »

The squatter left behind no bed, but she did leave stained bath mats, towels, flip-flops, Chinese-takeout remnants, Sun-kist soda cans, prescription medicine, old mail and some used airline tickets to Miami. Boemio casually walks around all of it, occasionally laughing. The buyer's agent - a woman in...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Less Vegas: The Casino Town Bets on a Comeback | 8/14/2009 | See Source »

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