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...fought. Legislators belonging to the opposition Kuomintang (KMT)-the party Chiang headed for 50 years on both sides of the Taiwan Strait until his death in 1975 at the age of 87-have called the hall's name change illegal, auguring a protracted courtroom battle. Taipei's Mayor Hau Lung-bin, also of the KMT, has vowed to fight any moves to dismantle a giant statue of Chiang that stands at the building, declaring it a protected historical site. He is part of a core of KMT politicians-and a surviving handful of military veterans who arrived in Taiwan...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Taiwan's Statue Wars | 5/24/2007 | See Source »

Jamestown left a record of spite, want and death, to say nothing of the long-range problems, from racism to lung cancer, of which the colonists were unaware. Yet they survived. Key aspects of the Jamestown template--chiefly the lures of religious liberty, private ownership and a measure of self-rule--guaranteed that British North America would be populous enough to withstand challenges from France and Holland and, finally, the power grabs of the mother country...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Jamestown: Inventing America | 4/26/2007 | See Source »

...sodium we eat comes from processed food and restaurant meals, so if we can reduce the sodium in those foods, it would go a long way to reducing the whole population’s intake,” she said. Jeffrey A. Cutler of the National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute, part of the team that conducted the study, said he thought the study may encourage people to cut back their sodium intake. “We really hope that this will play into the science-based pressure on food suppliers to reduce a lot of the extra salt that...

Author: By Asli A. Bashir, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: HMS Study Shows Cutting Salt Helps Heart | 4/23/2007 | See Source »

...could wish for, not least an unerring sense for where a defense was weak. A footballer among athletes, he was inventive, fearless and maybe the toughest of the tough. Born in Cessnock, New South Wales, to a coal-miner father, he played the 1997 grand final with a punctured lung amid reports that he was risking death. Yet he performed without a hint of apprehension, setting up the try that gave his beloved Newcastle their first premiership...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The End of Mr. Unstoppable | 4/12/2007 | See Source »

...conclusions had already provided the researchers at the National Heart, Lung and Blood Institute with hints that the heart-disease risk might apply unevenly, varying by age. And faced with growing concerns from menopausal women who depended on the hormones but were concerned about the danger, the investigators decided to take a second, closer look at the data. This time they teased the results apart more clearly into age groups. When they did, they found that the youngest of the women taking hormones weren't putting their hearts at risk so that there is a window of time, right around...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Hormone Therapy Redeemed | 4/5/2007 | See Source »

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