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...Beijing afraid? There are things they are nervous about. They seem to worry about Hong Kong going independent, about foreign infiltration, about Hong Kong people not being patriotic enough. There cannot be real Hong Kong independence. This is something nobody in Hong Kong would subscribe to. This fear-mongering talk is used by those who do not want universal suffrage...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: 10 Questions For Alan Leong | 3/8/2007 | See Source »

...groundwork for environmentalism, was altogether disgusted by the new Zeitgeist and gimcracks. "I delight to come to my bearings," he writes in Walden, which he began in the late '40s, "not walk in procession with pomp and parade, in a conspicuous place ... not to live in this restless, nervous, bustling, trivial Nineteenth Century, but stand or sit thoughtfully while it goes by. What are men celebrating?" They were celebrating, more or less, the awesome arrival of modernity, thrilled, as well as frightened, by the shock of the new. Here, now, more than 150 years later, in this restless, nervous, bustling...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: 1848: When America Came of Age | 3/8/2007 | See Source »

...made me soooo nervous. I agreed to do the movie and had no idea who else would be in it. I just figured he wouldn't have actors of that caliber and fame because I thought it was a little indie movie. All of a sudden, it was Natalie Portman, Rachel Weisz, David Strathairn and Jude Law, and it's like, "Oh, crap, what'd I get myself into?" But it was too late to pull out. If it doesn't work, though, I hope I can always go back...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: 10 Questions for Norah Jones | 3/8/2007 | See Source »

...might get five or six days. None of these patients ever stay over even one night now; even some go home the same day, and the carpal tunnel patients are out the door in less than an hour. I lived through the change - patients and doctors both were pretty nervous as discharges moved up. Where's the line? Right now there are some docs sending total knee patients home on the day of surgery. That's too far for me - and I have lots of reasons for thinking so - but until there are reported complications I reserve judgment; I have...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Pushing the Envelope with Treatment | 3/6/2007 | See Source »

...that people who had the surgery actually had less pain and less bump than those treated only with the support. So surgery as the best initial treatment is the researchers' suggestion. That's a conclusion which every orthopedist who has treated these fractures - as well as every patient, understandably nervous about being sliced open - is likely to question...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Pushing the Envelope with Treatment | 3/6/2007 | See Source »

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