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...year-old woman whose mother was 42 when she had me, it is upsetting - after years of trying - to not have a child of my own. Yet I don't want to pursue the variety of options out there, even though my doctor recommended IVF because I have "eggs some women would kill for." Maybe I'm old-fashioned, but I think I'd rather have God or Mother Nature make the call on whether I can have a child. Ann Tomaselli, PLEASANT HILL, CALIF...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: For Better or for Worse | 3/19/2008 | See Source »

Seeing that the country was going downhill, he escaped in 1974 to Lebanon, Shakir said, hiding in a rolled-up rug in the back of a truck. The doctor has not returned since...

Author: By Bonnie J. Kavoussi, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: 'Watercolor Memories' | 3/19/2008 | See Source »

...believe that while the traditional, well-rounded curriculum may be a thing of the past, the liberal arts at Harvard are now about creating the student who can study engineering and then go on to law school, or concentrate in romance languages and then become a world-class doctor...

Author: By Francesca T. Gilberti, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: What's The Use? | 3/19/2008 | See Source »

...This determination to be completely empirical-as if he were a doctor of the mind pledged to examine things only as they are, to come up with a clear diagnosis and then to suggest a practical response-is one of the things that have made the current Dalai Lama such a startling and tonic figure on the world stage. There are few monks in any tradition who speak so rarely about faith while rejecting anything that has been disproved by scientific inquiry; on his desk at home, he keeps a plastic model of the brain with detachable parts so that...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Monk's Struggle | 3/19/2008 | See Source »

...just as divided as anything in Christianity or Islam, but he has decided after analytical research that when he finds himself out in the wider world talking to large audiences of people with no interest in Buddhism, the most practical course is just to offer, as a doctor would, simple, everyday principles that anyone, regardless of religion (or lack of same), might find helpful. Since material wealth cannot help us if we're heartbroken, he often says, and yet those who are strong within can survive even material hardship (as many monks in Tibet have had tragic occasion to prove...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Monk's Struggle | 3/19/2008 | See Source »

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