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...keeping with romantic-comedy tradition, there is one special widower living in New Ulm. Handsome and hirsute Ted (Harry Connick Jr.) is the local union representative, part-time fireman and possessor of a pickup truck with a snowplow mounted up-front. Playgirl would present him nestled on a bearskin rug, Budweiser in hand. Since Ted represents the worker and the frozen small-town tundra, and Lucy represents the Man and despicable urban living - seriously, did Governor Sarah Palin have a hand in this script? - it's preordained that they will despise each other. For a few scenes, anyway. If only...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: New in Town, But Same Old Stories | 1/29/2009 | See Source »

...rest are related to a variety of medical conditions: iron deficiency, thyroid disease, changes in hormones. When a woman passes into menopause, for example, the estrogen, which supports hair, is withdrawn. You get some genetic holdover like a man would have, where the male hormones that are present in women without the estrogen counterbalance will cause hair loss...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: How to Fight Hair Loss | 1/29/2009 | See Source »

...frog. At Harvard, Melton teaches a frequently oversubscribed undergraduate course on science and ethics, in which he uses his keen sense of logic to provoke. When the class discussed the morality of embryonic-stem-cell research, Melton invited Richard Doerflinger of the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops to present arguments against the field. Melton asked Doerflinger if he considered a day-old embryo and a 6-year-old to be moral equivalents; when Doerflinger responded yes, Melton countered by asking why society accepts the freezing of embryos but not the freezing of 6-year-olds...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Stem-Cell Research: The Quest Resumes | 1/29/2009 | See Source »

...deployment with Peshmerga forces. After a flurry of helicopter shuttles between Kurdistan and Diyala and well over 40 hours of stubborn negotiation, U.S. commanders last week brokered a deal that will see area security provided by a joint force of Iraqi-army and Peshmerga fighters, with U.S. troops present to make sure everyone stays calm. (See images of Iraq's northern border zone...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Iraq's Election Fuels Tension on Kurdish Fault Line | 1/28/2009 | See Source »

...Kurds] think this town belongs to the Kurdistan government," said an Iraqi army officer who was present during the negotiations over election security in Khanaqin. "It was Bush, the father, who made a line [in 1991] where the Iraqi army was not allowed to cross. This town is south of the line. [Disputed polling sites in] Sheikh Baba and Jabara are south of the line too. They want to make the Kurdish government as big as they...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Iraq's Election Fuels Tension on Kurdish Fault Line | 1/28/2009 | See Source »

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