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Smokers are much more likely to develop lung cancer than nonsmokers - that has been a scientific truism for decades. But what about the 80% of smokers who don't develop lung cancer? Are they just the lucky ones? A trio of new studies suggests that the explanation for why they...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Lung Cancer Genes Identified | 4/2/2008 | See Source »

We skewer Spitzer for hiring prostitutes and hurting his family terribly. But who else was hurt? No one. Meanwhile, two high-level political executives - responsible for the deaths and terrible injuries of thousands of U.S. service personnel and tens if not hundreds of thousands of Iraqis, trillions of dollars of...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Please Help Yourself | 4/2/2008 | See Source »

There is no blinking the fact that Stop-Loss is a relentlessly grim film. Every movie so far made about the war in Iraq - both fictional and documentary - has failed at the box office, and there is no reason to suppose that this one's fate will be any different...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Stop-Loss Tells a Painfully Necessary Story | 3/28/2008 | See Source »

You cannot hear the name Martin Luther King Jr. and not think of death. For as famous as he may have been in life, it is death that ultimately defined him. To be sure, King was courageous in the face of death. But the unrelenting threat of bombs exploding and...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Burdens of Martyrdom | 3/27/2008 | See Source »

No longtime Senate leader can escape charges of favoritism, even a crusader against improper influence like McCain. This is especially true for a former chairman of the powerful Commerce Committee. "The issues before the committee often pit industry against industry," explains Ivan Schlager, who served as the committee's Democratic...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Putting McCain to the Ethics Test | 3/27/2008 | See Source »

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