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...milder, run-of-the-mill blues. The study, in the Journal of the American Medical Association, analyzed previously published data from trials of the popular drug Paxil and its older generic cousin, imipramine. Some doctors hope the findings will help tone down the popular image of antidepressant pills as magic bullets. (See how to prevent mental illness...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Antidepressants | 1/7/2010 | See Source »

Malka and his wife Myriam Zaoui founded the company in their kitchen while Zaoui was studying to be an aromatherapist. "She blended some oils for me to put under my shaving cream so that the razor glided over the skin and didn't grab hair," Malka says. "It worked magic for my skin and was the catalyst for starting the shaving business." They sold their BMW for $12,000 - "We were broke," Malka says - and opened up a small Manhattan store in 1996. The company sells its own Art of Shaving-brand products in its stores and other high...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The $175 Razor: A Sign of Economic Recovery? | 1/6/2010 | See Source »

Even following the attempted attack on the Northwest flight, critics remain resolutely opposed to the machines. "A knee-jerk reaction which sees body scanners, with their known drawbacks of passenger delays and privacy threats, as a magic solution is a bad move," says Sarah Ludford, a British member of the European Parliament. "In the Christmas Day case, as in the 9/11 and 7/7 [London] bombings, the failure was not to join the dots of available information." Advocates of civil liberties agree. Simon Davies, director of the London-based human-rights watchdog Privacy International, describes the scanners as a "fashionable...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Can Airport Body Scanners Stop Terrorist Attacks? | 1/5/2010 | See Source »

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