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...build up proper immunities; others believe the statistical rise is a combination of a real increase in allergies and an increase in the number of patients seeking diagnosis (i.e., getting allergy tests that turn up very low levels of reaction that might otherwise have gone undiscovered). "You have to distinguish between an epidemic of diagnoses and an epidemic of allergies," says Christakis...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Have Americans Gone Nuts Over Nut Allergies? | 1/4/2009 | See Source »

...Nobel year, 2005, when he was wracked with infirmities, he could still distinguish politics from life. "When my wife Antonia is pouring my cranberry juice in the morning," he said, "I don't regard that as a political act. Nor am I thinking politically at the time, though I do have the Guardian to my left hand and the cranberry juice to my right. But Antonia's act of passing the cranberry juice to me is an act of married love. I should say that, without her, I couldn't have coped over the last few years...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Pinter of Our Discontent | 12/25/2008 | See Source »

...this week's scandal involving Illinois Governor Rod Blagojevich and charges that he tried to sell Obama's place in the U.S. Senate, which the governor has the right to fill by appointment. A Senate seat would have been a perfect way for Jackson to further distinguish himself from his father, the Rev. Jesse Jackson, 67, who ran for the Democratic nomination for President in the 1980s. Congressman Jackson, however, is now fighting to make sure that his political ambitions, if not his career, survive this tangle with controversy and alleged corruption. A day after the Blagojevich scandal broke, Jackson...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Jesse Jackson Jr.: The Trouble with Being Candidate 5 | 12/11/2008 | See Source »

...been to establish a political identity for himself separate from his famous father. Earlier this year, he publicly criticized his father after the elder Jackson made a crude comment about Obama that was caught by a TV camera. Even during Wednesday's press conference, the younger Jackson tried to distinguish himself from his father, saying it was Obama who inspired him. "I got the idea that if a skinny kid with a funny name could be President of the United States, then a short kid with a somewhat controversial but certainly a high-profile name could be a Senator from...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Jesse Jackson Jr.: The Trouble with Being Candidate 5 | 12/11/2008 | See Source »

...distinguish between knowledge and opinion even on North Korea,” she said. “If North Korea is committing crimes by allowing children to starve, then so are countries like India and Cambodia...

Author: By Ellen X. Yan, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Prof Cites Lack of Market Opportunities in North Korea's Woes | 12/4/2008 | See Source »

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