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While calming the general public is critical, nobody has yet figured out how to deal with a fundamental cause of this crisis: banks' loss of confidence in each other. They are so nervous about so-called "counterparty risk" - the possibility of not being repaid - that they have stopped lending to...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Europe's Bank Scare | 10/2/2008 | See Source »

The proposed use of these (so-called / quote / quote-unquote / lame-sauce) student life funds is (unfair / inequitable / not going to increase my self-confidence when I’m at the Ten-Man). So the money is going in part to house formals? What about the kids without tuxedoes...

Author: By Joseph P. Shivers, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: From the Desk of (Your Name Here) | 10/1/2008 | See Source »

The scribbled notes from nurses in patient records, many of them in school exercise books paid for by relatives, describe their battles to keep women alive. In one such note, a nurse describes a woman, 18, who arrived at the hospital in late July suffering convulsions days after a traditional...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Death in Birth | 9/18/2008 | See Source »

The evildoers in the Third Reich couldn't all have been hissing, predatory, nutsy Nazis; they needed the complicity, passive or active, of the "good Germans." That notion spurred Taylor's excellent 1981 play, with Alan Howard as Halder, a liberal professor who is made complicit in the atrocities of...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Five Fast Takes from Toronto | 9/14/2008 | See Source »

The long-standing criticism, though, is that NIH/NCI is necessarily structured for caution, for limited returns based on individual scientists grinding it out in their labs--the three-yards-and-a-cloud-of-dust mentality. To get funding, individual researchers typically have to write grant proposals that demonstrate a reasonable...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: He Won His Battle With Cancer | 9/4/2008 | See Source »

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