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...longer the provenance of last-minute complications or doctors' liability fears, Caesarean delivery is viewed here as the modern woman's choice. An Iranian politician I interviewed recently even worked the normalcy of a C-section into a metaphor describing Iran's nuclear ambitions. "Nuclear capacity is like a knife," he told me. "It can be used in a standard operation, say a C-section for you. Or it can be used to kill someone...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Iran's Caesarean Section Craze | 9/21/2006 | See Source »

...recent trip overseas, my fiancé and I were much aware of the increase in security. But we did find something puzzling and alarming. On flights to and from Europe, we were surprised that we were provided with metal eating utensils, including a serrated knife. If a couple of box cutters brought down the World Trade Center nearly five years ago, doesn't someone out there have any sense by now not to provide metal eating utensils to passengers? Paul S. Wax Teaneck, New Jersey...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters | 9/11/2006 | See Source »

...patients whether they want to be awake or asleep for it." Those who choose sleep do so not because they want to avoid the pain--they won't be feeling it in either case--but because they just don't want to know they're under the knife...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Guess Who's Putting You Under | 9/6/2006 | See Source »

...recent trip overseas, my fiancé and I were much aware of the increase in security. But we did find something puzzling and alarming. On both flights to and from Europe we were surprised that we were provided with metal eating utensils, including a serrated knife. If a couple of box cutters brought down the World Trade Center nearly five years ago, doesn't someone out there have any sense by now not to provide metal eating utensils to passengers? PAUL S. WAX Teaneck...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Sep. 11, 2006 | 9/3/2006 | See Source »

...That rating angered Bello, in part because she had just seen the horror comedy Scary Movie, in which a psycho killer stabs a woman in her breast and removes her silicone implant with his long knife. Yet Scary Movie was rated R, meaning it could be attended by any kid with an adult in tow (assuming the local theater management enforced the rating, which is not always the case). The disparity between the gentle realism of The Cooler and the grotesque brutality of Scary Movie, and the knowledge that the grosser film had received the softer ruling, spurred Bello...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Censuring the Movie Censors | 9/2/2006 | See Source »

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