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...opening remarks and offered unusually long answers to the press. He was oddly free of passion and anger, given how intense the debate has become in the past few days, and he avoided any risk. He will likely have to add these ingredients soon to shake things up and counter flagging public support. (Read "Time for Obama to Step...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Obama's Health Push: Too Few Details, Too Many Questions | 7/23/2009 | See Source »

Barely speaking basic Cantonese or reading traditional Chinese characters lends imagined elements to everyday interactions. Is the bored-looking girl behind the counter at 7-11 laughing at my question, or the joke her co-worker just told? Does the hostess detect the annoyance slipping into my voice when I ask her a third time for the address of the restaurant? What are the ads with women in bikinis selling–skin cream or cosmetic surgery...

Author: By Chelsea L. Shover | Title: True Fiction | 7/21/2009 | See Source »

Ogletree declined to comment on whether he believes Gates was racially profiled, as some media reports have suggested, instead saying that his statement of events "speaks for itself." But other prominent black Harvard professors, including medical school professor S. Allen Counter and social sciences professor Lawrence D. Bobo, have suggested that race influenced the police actions. According to the Associated Press, the Reverend Al Sharpton has vowed to attend Gates' arraignment...

Author: By Peter F. Zhu, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Renowned Af-Am Professor Gates Arrested for Disorderly Conduct | 7/20/2009 | See Source »

...gazed fretfully around the table and expressed her concern for “you kids.” Each family member offered a doomsday prediction that aimed to top the last, and collectively denied the International Monetary Fund’s statement that Britain is the best placed to counter the crisis...

Author: By Olivia M. Goldhill | Title: Don’t Look on the Bright Side | 7/14/2009 | See Source »

...paper published this week in the prestigious Archives of General Psychiatry offers a simple new hope for trichotillomania sufferers. In a small trial of 50 hair pullers, more than half of those who took an over-the-counter antioxidant called N-acetylcysteine, which is available in pill form at mainstream stores like GNC and Vitamin Shoppe, had improvement of symptoms after 12 weeks, compared with 16% of those taking a placebo. (See how to prevent illness...

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

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