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While children regularly encounter trash at the playground, she added, discoveries of more dangerous items are “more irregular but enough to be upset about...

Author: By Anna M. Friedman, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Parents Question Homeless Policy | 11/16/2004 | See Source »

RECOVERING. TONY BLAIR, 51, British Prime Minister; from a procedure to correct an irregular heartbeat; in London. Blair, who first disclosed his heart problem last year, underwent a successful catheter ablation to restore normal heart rhythm. In announcing his treatment, he also vowed to seek a third term...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones Oct. 11, 2004 | 10/11/2004 | See Source »

...cells that have occasionally been making the heart beat too fast. British Prime Minister Tony Blair had one last Friday and was back at Downing Street by dinnertime, still planning to fly to Africa for a conference this week, and facing a better than 90% chance that his irregular rhythm won't recur. But Blair's encounter with the doctors is like the other good news he's been getting lately: mixed at best. His Labour Party won an important by-election last week (he cannily announced his trip to the hospital as the polls closed), driving the opposition Conservatives...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Heart Of Labour | 10/3/2004 | See Source »

Settlers of the Massachusetts Bay Colony built Harvard Square in 1630 as the colonial village of Newtown. The irregular pattern of streets formed by Massachusetts Avenue, Mount Auburn Street, Eliot Street and Boylston Street—now JFK Street—continue to frame the layout of the Square. Though a riverbed no longer courses by Eliot Street, and the boîte stores have often made way for larger businesses, Cambridge still breathes of the past. But the intersection of these time-honored streets has become a 20th century cultural phenomenon as well...

Author: By Elena Sorokin, ELENA P. SOROKIN | Title: September in the Square | 9/21/2004 | See Source »

...South Asia, particularly in India, the rat race to attain and keep a place in the élite class has produced some bad results. The West has exported its diseases as well its technology. Our traditional diet and lifestyle used to keep us healthy, but junk food and irregular hours have made us prone to heart disease. Let us go back to a way of living based on healthy values and abandon maddening pursuits. Otherwise, a time may come when it will be hard to distinguish between home and hospital. Arvind K. Pandey Allahabad, India...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters | 5/31/2004 | See Source »

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