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Moscow is particularly unhappy about the E.U.'s offer to include Belarus - traditionally a staunch Moscow ally - in the Eastern Partnership, albeit on the condition that Minsk improve its shoddy human-rights record. When the E.U. recently offered a multibillion-dollar loan to help modernize the Ukrainian pipeline system - conduit...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Europe and Russia's Continental Rift | 7/13/2009 | See Source »

Our brains can give rise to all manner of odd psychiatric problems, but one of the strangest is trichotillomania - better known as hair-pulling. The uncontrollable desire to yank out one's hair may seem like a freaky sideshow diagnosis, but the disorder is actually not so uncommon, affecting perhaps...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Study: Help for Chronic Hair Pullers? | 7/12/2009 | See Source »

If the findings bear out, they may herald a potential new treatment for an age-old condition. As psychiatric symptoms go, hair-pulling is among the earliest recorded. According to Dr. Jon Grant, a trichotillomania expert at the University of Minnesota School of Medicine and the lead author of the...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Study: Help for Chronic Hair Pullers? | 7/12/2009 | See Source »

Currently, most patients with trichotillomania are treated with psychotherapy or antidepressants, including selective serotonin-reuptake inhibitors (SSRIs), like Prozac. But in recent years, four studies that looked at SSRIs in the treatment of trichotillomania showed they are not effective in relieving the condition. (Indeed, there is an emerging debate about...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Study: Help for Chronic Hair Pullers? | 7/12/2009 | See Source »

The Iranian human-rights group said Tajbakhsh joins more than 240 other prominent Iranian lawyers, activists, journalists, professors, human-rights defenders and students detained without warrants and taken to undisclosed locations since the unrest began almost a month ago. "These detainees are being held in incommunicado detention and the authorities...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: U.S. Citizen Living in Tehran Said to Be Arrested | 7/10/2009 | See Source »

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