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...pomp and circumstance of his inauguration fade, President Suleiman faces a daunting barrage of political obstacles if he is to keep his beleaguered country peaceful, independent and intact...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A New Man for Lebanon's Old Puzzle | 5/26/2008 | See Source »

...politics is also, well, political, and NARAL was well aware that if it had withheld its endorsement much longer, it would have risked irrelevance. Now it's so relevant, of course, that it has succeeded in reinvigorating weary Clinton supporters. But that too may fade. Despite Malcolm's feisty rhetoric, her organization has not included references to Clinton's candidacy on the fund-raising appeals they have sent out since the Indiana and North Carolina primaries, as they did with earlier missives. Even candidates of the sisterhood have their expiration dates...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Feminist Divide Over Obama | 5/16/2008 | See Source »

...Then the real work begins: E.U. diplomats say the key to establishing a stable Kosovo will be to offer moderate Serbs there better economic prospects than the nationalism-tinged promises of Belgrade politicians and their Moscow backers. For that reason alone, the shrill tones from Belgrade are unlikely to fade anytime soon...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Kosovo's Curse | 5/8/2008 | See Source »

...hippocampus begins to malfunction early in Alzheimer's disease. Imaging studies have shown that people with Alzheimer's typically have smaller than average hippocampi. Meanwhile, as the hippocampus is shrinking, the pathway between it and the prefrontal cortex also begins to degrade. Signals peter out and fade away, and questions take their place: Do I know you? Who am I? But it's not just with Alzheimer's: the hippocampus also goes at least somewhat awry in normal memory loss. "It's relatively stable in volume till about 60," Harvard neuroscientist Randy Buckner explains, "and then begins to change. People...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Memory: Forgetting Is the New Normal | 5/8/2008 | See Source »

...produce neurons throughout the life cycle, but only in two places: the olfactory bulb and the hippocampus. And not just anywhere in the hippocampus but in the dentate gyrus, the very node that Small has identified as the site of impairment in normal memory loss. So why should memory fade at all? The answer may come from...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Memory: Forgetting Is the New Normal | 5/8/2008 | See Source »

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