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...Saturday matinees, often featuring a thrillingly primitive 12- or 15-chapter serial. TCM revived the tradition earlier this year by showing two 1930s Zorro serials, a few chapters each week. They've also opened the vaults to show B-movies detective series from the '40s: Sherlock Holmes, the Crime Doctor, the Whistler and the Lone Wolf sleuth again...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: 15 Reasons to Love Turner Classic Movies | 5/2/2009 | See Source »

...film's singular stupidity is that it presents as reprehensible all those traits - smooth talk, adventurous spirit and short romantic attention span - that McConaughey's core audience loves him for. They want him to play what he seems to be: a Doctor McDreamy who makes house calls, lays gentle, knowing hands on the patient, then moves on to his next erotic appointment. Sure, his fans can imagine for a second that he will settle down with them as he does at the end of his movies with Lopez or Hudson or Parker or Garner. But he'll have to leave...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The McConaughey Mystery: King of Hunks | 5/2/2009 | See Source »

Controversies like the Leyva death could prod Mexico to improve its general public health system once the epidemic has passed. The country of 110 million people still has fewer than two doctors per 1,000 inhabitants, almost half the average of countries belonging to the Paris-based Organization of Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD). In rural states and Oaxaca and Veracruz, where Mexico's first swine-flu cases (and first death) are believed to have emerged in late March and early April, access to physicians and nurses is even more threadbare. The nation's public health budget is about...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Living with Swine Flu: Mexico City Under the Cloud | 5/2/2009 | See Source »

Ceramics is something I’m always going to do,” Tischfield says. “I’m definitely going to have a kiln in my backyard. I can totally see myself doing what my neighbor did—being a 45-year-old doctor, coming home after work, lighting a cigar, turning on the radio, and throwing some awesome pots...

Author: By Lauren S. Packard, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: David J. Tischfield ’09 | 5/1/2009 | See Source »

...diabetes, said she felt tired, cold, feverish. She suffered from diarrhea."We thought it was a normal cold," says her husband Jose Luis (who does not want his last name used). "We do not have Social Security or Seguro Popular [public insurance], so we went to a private doctor [on April 5]. She treated [Adela], and we paid her and bought the medicines." The physician said Adela had a throat infection and prescribed amoxicillin and Amboxal. But Adela did not get better. On April 7, she went back to the doctor by herself. She had coughed up blood that...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Swine Flu's First Fatality: A Chronicle of Deaths Foretold | 4/30/2009 | See Source »

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