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...this line of argument is correct, then heating up other tumors - from, say, breast cancer or colon cancer - could help boost the effect of chemotherapy and radiation. Such so-called hyperthermia treatments have been tried in the past, with little success - in part because it was difficult to isolate the tumor from the normal tissue around it. But it's possible that new developments in nano-technology could change the picture...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Cancer Lessons of Lance Armstrong | 7/26/2006 | See Source »

...Tuesday and another when you retake the test on Thursday. Their chief function, as far as I could tell when I took them, was to weed out the introverts. When asked whether you'd rather be the life of the party or curl up with a book, the correct answer is always "Party...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Guys Just Want to Have Fun | 7/23/2006 | See Source »

...possible to impose such fake democracy-its "one country, two systems" policy-on Taiwan. The party's efforts are in vain. We have tasted true freedom; therefore we shall never again give it up. The future of Taiwan can be decided only by its 23 million people. Chiu is correct: "The island's democracy is here to stay." Eric Kai-Hsiang Yu Taichung, Taiwan...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters | 7/17/2006 | See Source »

...summer, he realized the mathematical approach he had been pursuing for almost three years was flawed. And now there was a competitive pressure. Einstein discovered to his horror that Hilbert had taken what he had learned from Einstein's lectures and was racing to come up with the correct equations first...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Intimate Life of A. Einstein | 7/9/2006 | See Source »

Einstein's climactic fourth lecture at the Prussian Academy, on Nov. 25, was titled "The Field Equations of Gravitation." It contained the correct set of equations that capped his theory of general relativity. Although it came a few days after Hilbert had sent in his own paper, Einstein's version was more complete, and the underlying concepts were his alone...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Intimate Life of A. Einstein | 7/9/2006 | See Source »

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