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...Like all detainees, Khan was shorn of his beard, stripped, forced into a bright orange jump suit, clapped into earmuffs so he couldn't hear and black goggles that obscured his eyesight. In chains, he was led onto a plane for the longest, strangest trip of his life - to Guantanamo...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Letter from Guantanamo | 10/29/2002 | See Source »

...Qaeda," says his dad. "He's a doctor who maybe likes to smoke too much hashish and laze around." Like all prisoners, Khan was shorn of his beard, stripped, forced into a bright orange jumpsuit, clapped into earmuffs so he couldn't hear and black goggles that obscured his eyesight. In chains, he was led onto a plane for the longest, strangest trip of his life?to Guant?namo...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Long Way Home | 10/28/2002 | See Source »

Though most buyers of cross-border insurance policies are Latino, the price and quality of Mexican health care attract non-Latinos as well. Marvin Morton, 40, a sheriff's deputy inSan Bernardino, Calif., wanted to get laser surgery to correct his deteriorating eyesight but was unable to have the procedure he wanted covered through his U.S. insurer, Kaiser Permanente. The cost out of pocket, he said, was "outrageous" at $3,000 to $5,000. So Morton and his fellow deputies lobbied their union, which came up with an alternative. The union contracted with two doctors, one in Irvine, Calif...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: HEALTH INSURANCE: Doctors Without Borders | 10/14/2002 | See Source »

...Cliff: a Girl Sewing and Irving Ramsey Wiles' Woman Reading on a Bench portray a serene, carefree world bathed in sunshine. Two of Cassatt's pictures, Young Woman and Her Child and Sara and Her Mother Admiring the Baby, are pastels on paper. Cassatt's failing eyesight made it progressively dif.cult for her to paint in oil; working with chalk-like sticks allowed her to bring feathery lightness and luminosity to her pictures. Hassam is said to be one of the artists who most successfully adapted the spirit of French Impressionism to the American theme, as depicted...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Lasting Impressions | 6/23/2002 | See Source »

...mind that Norman Mailer will turn 80 in January, you still pause when he puts a hearing aid behind each of those notable ears. "The body is like an old boat in stormy seas," he shrugs. "To stay afloat, you keep throwing ballast overboard. All the senses go--hearing, eyesight, smell...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books by the Buddy System | 5/6/2002 | See Source »

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