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...most common hospital mishaps...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Why Exercise Won't Make You Thin | 8/9/2009 | See Source »

...profligacy aren't inevitable, and the American tendency to magical thinking can be kept in check. The diehard opposition of powerful institutions (oil companies, agribusiness, the health-insurance industry, teachers unions and more) to fundamental change is implacable, for sure, but it isn't invincible. We can rediscover common sense and the better angels of our nature. We possess the ability to rejigger and renovate our lives and our country as necessary. But to get there we have to keep thinking the unthinkable...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Reset Economy: What Can We Learn From the End of Excess? | 8/8/2009 | See Source »

...affects individuals' sense of well being, producing higher rates of depression and lower levels of life satisfaction. Studies have shown mixed results as to the effect of unemployment on health. On average all job losers tend to face a permanent reduction in their salary, and that is even more common for the long-term unemployed...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Unemployment Dips, but Long-Term Joblessness Remains a Concern | 8/7/2009 | See Source »

...Saudi Osama bin Laden, the Egyptian Ayman al-Zawahiri of al-Qaeda (who are still at large) and the Jordanian Abu Musab al-Zarqawi, who was killed while leading the radical insurgency in Iraq. Cagey, dogged and charismatic, Mehsud had a knack for uniting disparate factions around a common cause; he transformed the badlands of South Waziristan into the most important redoubt for the Pakistani Taliban and al-Qaeda. He denied involvement in the assassination of former Pakistani Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto, but he was not unhappy about it: the Pakistani government produced an alleged message from him congratulating...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Is Pakistan's Taliban Chief Dead? | 8/7/2009 | See Source »

...like Mehsud, by a missile from a CIA-operated drone. This means the discussions will have to take place through proxies and go-betweens, substantially delaying the process. Even in the best of times, succession in tribal leadership is rarely smooth. There are invariably multiple contenders, and it is common for outside moderators to be brought in to judge rival claims. (Read a brief biography of Baitullah Mehsud...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Who Will Be Pakistan's Next Terrorism Chief? | 8/7/2009 | See Source »

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