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Perhaps if brief exposure to cigarette smoke posed serious health risks, like sarin gas, regulation would be needed to protect bystanders from accidental contact. But the alleged danger of secondhand smoke depends on sustained, long-term exposure, which limits the risk to the population of volunteers...

Author: By Piotr C. Brzezinski | Title: Full of Smoke and Fury | 5/19/2006 | See Source »

...Brown's novel The Da Vinci Code brims with mysteries: Did Jesus have a girlfriend? And did they have a daughter, whose descendants live today? Is the Priory of Sion an ancient covenant whose Grand Masters, including Leonardo Da Vinci and Isaac Newton, have sworn to protect this royal blood line? Is Opus Dei, the conservative Catholic sect Brown paints in such lurid colors, really that awful? Can a fictional thriller that is nothing more or less than (as one Biblical scholar called it) "a great plane read" be taken seriously as an ecclesiastical exposé? (My short answers...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Da Vinci Code Mystery Revealed! | 5/16/2006 | See Source »

...sweatshops as far away as Melbourne: "Now if that's an 80-year-old woman, you don't have to think too hard about what's wrong with this picture." After a fact-finding trip to Central Australia earlier this month, Arts Minister Kemp acknowledged the need to protect arts centers from such practices. "The art centers are the life blood of the community," says Klingender. "They are obviously key to documenting and authenticating works-which is crucially important-but they also ensure an artist is paid correctly and ethically." With the opening of the MQB in Paris...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cultural Production Line | 5/15/2006 | See Source »

...Rather than contest the suspension, he switched schools and is now suing for compensatory damages. A spokeswoman for G.W.U. says that because Nott's suspension fell within the school's disciplinary system, the wording of that letter may have seemed impersonal. However, she stresses, "the goal here was to protect a life...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: When Colleges Go On Suicide Watch | 5/14/2006 | See Source »

What really ought to scare doctors, administrators, insurance executives and the general public is that there are so few nurses to protect them. Everyone points to money as the problem, but most nurses will tell you that it was a general decline in their perceived value as caregivers that began the descent into the system we have today. If you want to have a physician who can take good care of you, you need nurses who will share that duty and keep that doctor informed. JODY NICHOLS, R.N. San Marino, Calif...

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

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