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...sell snake oil to TIME's science journalists. Or cold fusion, or any other unproven notion. "We pride ourselves on being sticklers for science, rooted firmly in the mainstream," says assistant managing editor Philip Elmer-DeWitt, whose hard-nosed science team produced this week's installment of Innovators, our monthly series on 100 people with breakthrough ideas. It was quite a departure for Phil's reporters and writers to venture into the realm of alternative medicine, where hopes proliferate and proof is often sketchy. Yet the field is booming because millions of Americans swear these therapies have given them relief...
...that divorce is the disintegration of family," says Mark. "For us, it was an expansion of family, an opportunity to renew and change." The kids, who thrived in one house, seem equally happy in two. Do they fantasize that their parents will reunite? Both children are puzzled by the notion. Says Noa: "If my parents got back together, where would Tyler, Erin and David...
...this modern maelstrom, yoga's tendency to stasis and silence seems at first insane, then inspired. The notion of bodies at rest becoming souls at peace is reactionary, radical and liberating. If it cures nagging backache, swell. But isn't it bliss just to sit this one out, to freeze-frame the frenzy, to say no to all that and om to what may be beyond it, or within ourselves...
It’s a good thing that this premise turns out to be secondary to the actual substance of the play, although the script apparently began as “a short story, a writer’s attempt to come to terms with the somewhat old notion that there is nothing new under the sun,” says Ragozzino in the program. Stephen, Scott’s Son is another collaboration between Ragozzino and director Andrew Boch ’02, who staged Ragozzino’s In Between O’Clock last spring. What saves...
...quite a number of my classmates that in fact these are the best jobs available. The choice of former Secretary of the Treasury Robert Rubin as our speaker for Commencement (News, “Rubin Chosen to Address Commencement,” Apr. 6) seems to only further this notion that nothing is more important than the bottom line...