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...total of 14 children and one adult at the eye hospital. All of them have shown significant improvement in less than a year. While most were treated surgically, the adult--a 29-year-old man with congenital aphakia (an eye missing its lens)--just needed a pair of glasses. Eighteen months later, he was able...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Where Blindness is Epidemic | 2/23/2007 | See Source »

...Eighteen months on, one of the men who jumped into the river to help the Shi'ites says al-Obeidi "wasted his life for those animals." Hamza Muslawi refuses to talk about how many he himself saved, saying it fills him with shame. "If I see a Shi'ite child about to drown in the Tigris now," says the carpenter, "I will not reach my hand out to save him." In Khadamiya, too, the narrative about Aug. 31 has changed. Karrar Hussein, 28, was crossing the bridge when the stampede began. Ask him about al-Obeidi, and his cheerful demeanor...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Behind the Sunni-Shi'ite Divide | 2/22/2007 | See Source »

...Mama También” and “Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban” fame, the film imagines a world in which women are no longer able to bear children. Based on P.D. James’ novel, the film opens eighteen years after the last baby has been born, a phenomenon that coincides with—and perhaps contributes to—staunch anti-immigration sentiment, widespread violence, extensive environmental damage, and the frequent advertisement of assisted suicide drugs. Perpetually scruffy and emotionally detached, Theo is left to protect the miraculously pregnant Kee (Claire-Hope...

Author: By Victoria B. Kabak, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: A Cautionary Tale in ‘Children of Men’ | 2/15/2007 | See Source »

...after a Niki Finelli jumper in the first half, Cornell cut the lead down to nine to make the score 29-20 going into the locker rooms. After the break, Moretzsohn was not only efficient, but effective. Moretzsohn provided the offense for the Crimson, scoring twelve of her eighteen points in the second half. Her effort helped Harvard go up by as much as 16 in the second frame, the Crimson’s largest lead of the match. The 6’7’’ forward added a single block to put the icing...

Author: By Vincent R. Oletu, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Moretzsohn Bolts Crimson Up Ivies | 2/6/2007 | See Source »

...complaint about...the mediocrity and parochial character of the punk scene,” Goldman says, laughing at himself. “Since I felt that I was very clever, it was all expressed in the idiom of the French Revolution”. Yakub broke up after an eighteen-month stint when band members wanted to pursue other interests—in Goldman’s case, political theory. “I have long since moved on,” Goldman says. “I have the ordinary concerns of graduate students.” Goldman says that...

Author: By Alina Voronov, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: From Rock to Religion: TF Was Punk Rocker Back in the Day | 12/13/2006 | See Source »

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