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...these local problems and beliefs mean that solutions will have to be similarly regionalized. "Physicians country by country will have to figure out how to beat this cancer," says Dr. Eric Winer, chief scientific adviser to Komen for the Cure. As a TIME investigation in North America, Latin America, Africa, Asia, Europe and the Middle East showed, there are places where those solutions are being found - and places where they aren't. There are countries in which lives are being saved - and others in which far too many are still being lost. In all of them, the first step...
...early to say if these efforts indeed mean a start toward ending the global breast-cancer crisis. In the rich world, a diagnosis of breast cancer may bring terror, but a terror lightened by hope. Elsewhere that is still not the case. If the developed world can work to globalize wealth, then it should be similarly able to globalize the opportunities for health. At last, a curative army is mobilizing to make that happen. Many women are surely still destined to sicken and die before its work is through, but many more will learn to battle a disease that...
...generals to address widespread international condemnation of last week's crackdown. Rumors that Than Shwe, who has been ill for years, has picked junta No. 3 Shwe Mann - a purported economic pragmatist - as his favored successor have also raised hopes. But a change of guard may not mean much. The Burmese military has ruled with an iron grip for 45 years, and predicting its demise - or even nascent reform within its ranks - is a dangerous bet. Burma's generals may be faceless, but they have outlasted most of the world's better-known dictators...
...want a President's spouse to be outspoken, domineering or suffering from Leona Helmsley syndrome - an inflated sense of superiority. Judith Giuliani is a classic example. If Rudy is the Republican nominee, she will be a deficit to him. Elizabeth Edwards and Michelle Obama mean well for their husbands but probably would not be so outspoken if it were a closer race. Everyone knows Bill Clinton - and either loves or hates him - so he doesn't have to say much. Robert S. Katz Stamford, Conn...
...whether a wife is a divorcé, CEO or stay-at-home mom is more of the pageantry of personality that characterized both the 2000 and '04 elections. The past seven years are a reminder of the consequences of thinking more about the candidates' families than what their platforms mean for our families. Jacqueline Carrick Haddonfield...