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Komaroff said three or four physicians helped with the development of the content and about a half dozen artists and editors employed by Harvard Health Publications assisted with the project...

Author: By Laura G. Mirviss, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: HMS Launches Swine Flu Application | 10/30/2009 | See Source »

Most studies of economic inequality look at modern, developed societies, but this research attempts to get at underlying mechanisms by comparing different sorts of less developed ones. Examples span four continents and six centuries and pull from the work of more than two dozen social scientists. Wealth is measured in a variety of ways, from housing quality to hunting returns to social connections provided by in-laws. (See how Americans are spending...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Information Economy May Shrink the Rich-Poor Gap | 10/29/2009 | See Source »

...that still gets the audience closer to the real Michael Jackson - MJ the performer, that is - than anything in the man's avidly documented history. Wisely and decently ignoring the circumstances of his death and the circus that followed it, Ortega focuses on the re-creation of about a dozen Jackson standards for the concert. ("Beat It," "Billie Jean," "Wanna Be Startin' Somethin'," "Black and White" and "I'll Be There" are all here.) At times several takes of a song are edited into one performance; you know because Jackson is sporting different rehearsal clothes. The footage was shot...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Michael Jackson's This Is It Review: He's Still a Thriller | 10/28/2009 | See Source »

...common performers here, can be easily reintegrated into comfortable habitats. And the country's performing tigers and bears have already been taken to neighboring countries by the owners of larger circuses to avoid confiscation. But small, family-owned circuses are unlikely to flee the country, which will leave two dozen lions and primates needing new homes...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Bolivia's Freed Circus Animals Need Homes | 10/27/2009 | See Source »

...reserves that take in abandoned, orphaned or freed animals that cannot be reintroduced into the wild. And she's impressed by the love and care they're given at the two sanctuaries operated by Bolivian nonprofit Inti Wara Yassi, where hundreds of monkeys and birds and more than two dozen pumas, jaguars and ocelots live in large cages set in lush jungle. They are played with or taken out for walks every day. "Before [this reserve was created] these animals were as good as dead. Now they have the option for a life with dignity," says Inti Wara Yassi founder...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Bolivia's Freed Circus Animals Need Homes | 10/27/2009 | See Source »

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