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...TIME 100 You went nearly halfway around the globe to find someone who would substantiate George W. Bush's addition to your list, and that person reached back seven years only to recall what a sincere family man Bush was [May 12]. Here in 2008, with eight months left in his eight years in office, Bush has little worldwide credibility, and a record 70% of the American public no longer supports his policies. Incompetent and ineffectual, he is a lame-duck President, already shadowed by the candidates seeking to replace him. By what reasonable measure is he today...
...start by confessing that I am a thirtysomething anachronism. I still read the hard copies of the New York Times and the Boston Globe, and I refuse to consider changing my habits. My students marvel at me the way I once marveled at my mother for being slow to get an e-mail account. They don't understand why right-thinking people would willfully make their hands dirty every day when they don't have to. To them I am like a person who takes a shower in the morning and then decides to do gardening before work. True, smudge...
...Parents of these unimmunized kids know that as long as nearly all the other children get their shots, there should not be enough pathogen around to sicken anyone. But that's a fragile shield. Infectious-disease bugs continue to travel the globe, always ready to launch the next big public-health threat. Pockets of intentionally unvaccinated children provide a perfect place for a disease to squat, leading to outbreaks that spread to other unprotected kids, infants and the elderly. Ongoing measles outbreaks in four states are centered in such communities; one originated with an unimmunized boy from San Diego...
...went nearly halfway round the globe to find someone who would substantiate the addition of George W. Bush to your list [May 12]. Bush has little worldwide credibility, and a record 70% of the American public no longer supports his policies. By what reasonable measure is he one of the world's 100 most influential people? Jeff Clark, CHURCHVILLE...
Corporal Steve Wardrobe holds up a globe of freshly sugared fried dough, and uses a syringe from his combat medical kit to inject it with raspberry jam. There's no better cure for a rough day out on patrol, he has learned out here in the wilds of Afghanistan's Helmand province, than a fresh jelly doughnut. "These go down well with the lads," he says. The lads, in this instance, being the medics of D-company, 2nd Battalion of Britain's Parachute Regiment, stationed here at Forward Operating Base Zeebrugge -and the few groupies who have caught on that...