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...Hwan seizes the wooden handle of the meat cleaver with a beefy right hand, raising the 21-cm blade up and back past his ear. His left pinkie is on the table, pressed against the edge of a wooden board covered in white cloth; the rounded, stubby finger is missing the last joint. "You put your pinkie on the board and chop it real hard," he says, swinging the blade down fast to within a few millimeters of his stump. "If you miss you can cut parts of other fingers." Gently placing the knife and board into a cardboard...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Way of the Fists | 2/19/2001 | See Source »

BONUS SHOT Meningitis vaccinations are agonizing for babies, but they pack an unexpected bonus--fewer ear infections. A Finnish study shows that meningitis vaccines ward off 6% of all ear infections. That may not sound like much, but U.S. children under five come down with 25 million ear infections each year, and the vaccine could prevent 1.5 million of them. That would reduce antibiotic use among kids--and wear and tear on parents...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Your Health: Feb. 19, 2001 | 2/19/2001 | See Source »

...assures you that only one of these courses will teach you an approach to learning. Can you guess which one? The reason you can't understand the hot, young foreign student standing in front of you is partly that you still have some Charles River mud stuck in your ear and partly that he is speaking in Babylonian. Almost all of our TFs are similarly gifted in foreign languages (not all of them are gifted in English...

Author: By Meredith B. Osborn, | Title: Dear Mr. President | 2/16/2001 | See Source »

...true. I watch so much sports on television that I could probably transcribe the score from SportsCenter by ear, and I don't even know how to read music...

Author: By Rahul Rohatgi, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: The Ra-Hooligan: Confessions of a Sports Junkie | 2/8/2001 | See Source »

...auto-rickshaw, walk Babita to a bench, sit her down and leave. "I thought Babita had come home for a visit," says Shekhar. But when he walked over, he found Babita slumped, barely conscious. The right side of her head was so swollen it hung over her ear. Her body was covered in nail scratches and bruises. Her thumb was broken. Shekhar ran to fetch his mother, and they rushed Babita to a hospital, where a doctor diagnosed a severe concussion. Then, gathering a furious crowd of neighbors, the family went to the police. Faced with an angry mob, Batra...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Domestics | 2/4/2001 | See Source »

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