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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 »

...next five years, the Mikols did everything they could to give Julia a normal childhood. But when Julia's condition worsened, the 8-year-old refused the recommended heart-and-lung transplant, and her parents reluctantly agreed with her decision. Before her death, Julia asked her mother to promise to help other children. "You got me home," she told Margaret in the sign language she used to communicate. "You've got to get them home...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: When the Prescription is Home Care | 5/24/2007 | See Source »

Some SKIP clients, like Amy Goldman Putman, are relatively fortunate. Her son Jacob was born with serious lung disease and related complications. For the first few years of his life, he was dependent on a respirator and needed a feeding tube and round-the-clock nursing care (he threw up 18 to 20 times a day), all of which kept him going in and out of the hospital. Putman thought she was on the verge of a nervous breakdown. "When Jake was born, the world as I knew it disappeared," says Putman. "Margaret knows the patient's rights, comes...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: When the Prescription is Home Care | 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 »

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