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Dates: during 2000-2009
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Every surgery poses risk, as doctors will inform you, but in most cases, it's a necessary one. The benefits of going under the knife frequently outweigh the risks of infection or complications, or the dangers associated with anesthesia...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Study: Anesthesia in Infancy Linked to Later Disabilities | 3/24/2009 | See Source »

...closes in on the assassins, many in Lebanon are bracing for more instability. Lebanon already faces a tense period in the months leading to knife-edge parliamentary elections scheduled for June 7. ?The establishment of the tribunal faced many difficulties, and I do think that as we get closer to the killers we might have more trouble,? Hamade said...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Lebanon on Edge as Hariri Tribunal Starts | 3/1/2009 | See Source »

...there was one in particular who bore careful scrutiny. Guandique attacked two female joggers in Rock Creek Park in the months surrounding Levy's disappearance, on May 14 and July 1. In both cases, brandishing a knife, he attacked his victims from behind and wrestled them to the ground. (Both struggled to free themselves and were able to escape relatively unscathed.) Apprehended after the second attack, Guandique admitted during questioning that he had seen Chandra Levy in Rock Creek Park...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Chandra Levy Case | 2/25/2009 | See Source »

...deserved” it and whose life is really “f***ed.”The top anecdotes tend to follow a certain pattern: a brief recount of one of life’s little disappointments, followed by a twist of the knife that makes it just that much worse. For instance, one classic submission reads, “Today, my girlfriend dumped me proclaiming she wanted someone more like her ‘Edward’. I asked her who Edward was. She held up a copy of her ‘Twilight’ book...

Author: By Max J Kornblith | Title: The Awkward Stage | 2/23/2009 | See Source »

When asked how his New Year celebrations have been, the pilgrim - a middle-aged businessman wearing a heavy winter coat against the bitter winds that knife through the monastery's narrow alleys - immediately glances up and then over his shoulder. It is the universal, instinctive reaction of Tibetans I talked to on a recent trip to China's far western province of Qinghai, where ethnic Tibetans make up the majority of the population in the areas closest to the Qinghai-Tibet border. "Cameras," he hisses, nodding upward. "The police have them everywhere...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: In Protest, Tibetans Refuse to Celebrate New Year | 2/18/2009 | See Source »

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