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...what happens to these relationships when one of us departs for a different continent. Emails are exchanged every few months, along with a badly connected phone call or two. But everyday life is all-consuming wherever you are, and at school I can barely remember to call my parents, let alone my former host family in Honduras...

Author: By Anita J Joseph | Title: Heart and Seoul | 8/11/2009 | See Source »

...never pondered the contents of gay fetish shops before, let alone yearned to enter, but once inside it was intriguing to explore such a foreign world. This was my first taste of the access a reporter’s badge can grant. True, it wasn’t quite as high profile as a fashionable gig or exclusive interview, but I thoroughly enjoyed my glimpse into the restricted areas of London’s gay district...

Author: By Olivia M. Goldhill | Title: Press Pass | 8/11/2009 | See Source »

...involves the H1N1 vaccine that is currently in production. The batch is based on a recipe that Hay's team helped put together in April. As it takes six months to produce a vaccine, virologists must be on the lookout for "antigenic drift" - changes in the virus that would let it escape the immune responses induced by the vaccine. (Because the flu virus can mutate so easily, antigenic drift is not unusual...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Flu Hunters: Racing to Outsmart a Pandemic | 8/11/2009 | See Source »

...moment, the apparent death of Mehsud and the infighting among his loyalists has opened a small window of opportunity for Pakistan. "It has to be more proactive and not let the new leader establish himself," says Sherpao, the former Interior Minister. "The government will have to try and win over some of the tribes who were too afraid to challenge the militants." Over the weekend, elders from the Mehsud tribe announced they were prepared to fight the Taliban if they received government backing. That challenge, in the form of a local tribal militia, is already paying off against other Taliban...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Are Taliban Leaders Fighting Among Themselves? | 8/11/2009 | See Source »

...Part of that return to normal is driven by a return to reasonable lending: people aren't buying more than they can afford to because banks won't let them. When the Robertses first met with mortgage planner Iva Deobald last year, she told them to go away, pay down their credit-card and student-loan debt and then come back with a better set of financials. Deobald says, "I'm back to what I used...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: How the Housing Market Is Fighting Its Way Back | 8/10/2009 | See Source »

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