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...work, paid them more money, built them more and better houses, more and fancier cars (see BUSINESS IN 1952). Its enterprising suburb builders raised up almost overnight a new Levittown beside the Delaware River, bigger at birth than the pre-Revolutionary Pennsylvania cities of York and Lancaster. Its patient medical researchers found drugs that gave promise of conquering TB and polio. Its impatient newspaper readers doused themselves inside & out with another wonder drug, chlorophyll, and followed the Wars of the Roses-Eleanor and Billy...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GREAT BRITAIN: Defender of the Faith | 4/14/2006 | See Source »

Egan is a pediatrician in Jacksonville, Florida. Some names in this column have been changed to protect patient privacy...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: When Angels Save a Life | 4/13/2006 | See Source »

...included, in a muddle as well. Doctors are trained in science, where the truth is defined by tangible proof, not blind faith. But science hasn't proven that angels exist or don't exist. And at least a few times in any doctor's career she will encounter a patient's stunning recovery or well-timed premonition that can only be explained by a higher power. So I answered my daughter by asking her the question, "What do you think?" She seemed to have no such reservations, responding with a vigorous rendition of "Hark the Herald Angels Sing...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: When Angels Save a Life | 4/13/2006 | See Source »

...controversially replaced, with one section not only resembling the original facades, but also including a gallery of photographs of what was there before. Inside the complex, a wide spiraling incline takes shoppers on a tour of luxe fashion and lifestyle boutiques. Caf?s and restaurants abound, and if you're patient enough to brave the queues, Mist's upscale take on the traditional ramen shop makes for a delightful stop. Vague attempts have been made to cast Omotesando in an eco-friendly mold (there's a barrage of greenery and free bicycle parking within), but the eye is only briefly fooled...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Capital Hill | 4/10/2006 | See Source »

Researchers announced Tuesday the successful integration of laboratory-grown urinary bladders into patients, signalling a breakthrough in a field beset with hardship and controversy. According to a report released by the British journal The Lancet, scientists from Wake Forest University School of Medicine and Harvard Medical School used cell samples of a patient’s bladder to re-grow the full-sized organ before surgically inserting it above the old one. “This is one small step in our ability to go forward in replacing damaged tissues and organs,” said Anthony Atala, director...

Author: By Barrett P. Kenny, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: HMS Scientists Create Bladders | 4/6/2006 | See Source »

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