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...region. Each cataract operation costs only $15, and the ready-made eyeglasses that he provides, premade for a village-wide range of strengths, are $3. In the skilled hands of Tabin and his team, the eyesight of a village is restored in days at a tiny cost per person...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Global Coalition of Good | 9/6/2007 | See Source »

...second person to ever set foot on the moon, he's the star of a Sundance Award-winning film about the Apollo crews. Buzz Aldrin will now take your questions...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: 10 Questions for Buzz Aldrin | 9/6/2007 | See Source »

...leave NASA after returning home from the moon? -Gene McHugh, HOLLYWOOD, MDIt would have been pretty hard to top the moon landing. Neil Armstrong elected to stay with NASA in aeronautics, and I, being more of a military person, left to continue my career in the U.S. Air Force. There were a lot of other people who wanted to walk on the moon, and we didn't want to be greedy...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: 10 Questions for Buzz Aldrin | 9/6/2007 | See Source »

...wrote, "Romney has every right to believe in con men, but I want to know if he does, and if so, I don't want him running the country." Thus a third argument that religion can't be a private affair for a presidential candidate: what a person deeply believes says something about his or her character, which voters may wish to take into account. Deeply religious people may find a candidate's ability to make that "leap of faith" admirable or even essential. Or they may find it offensive if it conflicts with their own faith. (Some devout Christians...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: God as Their Running Mate | 9/6/2007 | See Source »

Forget donating one's body to science--biologist J. Craig Venter mapped his entire genetic code, marking the first time a single person's genome has been plotted. The sequence, more complete and complex than the 2001 human-genome model, is a glimpse at a future in which individuals can mine their DNA for medical information...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Dashboard: Sep. 17, 2007 | 9/6/2007 | See Source »

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