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...make health care as error free as possible is to ensure that no decision is made in isolation. Patient safety will not improve until doctors lead the way by openly examining what they do and how they do it--and by embracing change. RICHARD BJERKE, M.D. Pittsburgh, Pa...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: May 22, 2006 | 5/14/2006 | See Source »

...without funds, their standing has already suffered. The PA hasn't been able to pay its roughly 160,000 employees for two months, and frequent border closures by Israel have stanched the flow of goods and services - and money - into and out of Gaza. The U.N., the World Bank, and numerous diplomats warn that the collective and mutually sustaining tolls of the financial and security crises in Gaza and the West Bank could lead to worsened poverty, more violence, and to the collapse of the PA itself...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Is a Palestinian Civil War Breaking Out? | 5/9/2006 | See Source »

This observation jibes neatly with imaging studies that look at live brain activity in autistic people. Studies using functional MRI show a lack of coordination among brain regions, says Marcel Just, director of Carnegie Mellon's Center for Cognitive Brain Imaging in Pittsburgh, Pa. Just has scanned dozens of 15- to 35-year-old autistic people with IQs in the normal range, giving them thinking tasks as he monitors their brain activity. "One thing you see," says Just, "is that [activity in] different areas is not going up and down at the same time. There's a lack of synchronization...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Inside the Autistic Mind | 5/7/2006 | See Source »

...help the Roman Catholic Church cleanse itself of its secrecy as well as the flaw of gender-determined and gender-dominated leadership. So absorbed are the church leaders in protecting their own agenda that they fail to fulfill their role in the truthful representation of Christ. ETTA ALBRIGHT Cresson, Pa...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: May 15, 2006 | 5/7/2006 | See Source »

...conflict? No. Will it reduce the amount of violence? The answer is yes. Is it worth a try? Yes! I tip my hat to Senator Dayton for standing his ground on what he believes, something that seems to be rare on Capitol Hill these days. MATT ROTELLA West Chester, Pa...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: May 15, 2006 | 5/7/2006 | See Source »

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