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...because this is what happened to me" infests every mind. Medicine involves thousands of choices among treatments and diagnostics which often don't have any objective, scientific advantages with respect to one another. Yet we must choose. Every doctor knows he or she can find scientific papers that prove or disprove the same idea; "always do this" and "never do this." Sometimes they're even in the same journal. In the 1950s, scientific authorities told the public they should eat butter, eggs and caffeine. Then they said they shouldn't. Now they should again. This tempts us to throw...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: When the Diagnosis Is Cynicism | 7/5/2006 | See Source »

Before being allowed to light their for hire sign, London's taxi drivers must pass a series of rigorous exams to prove they have committed to memory every street, major building and open space within a 10-km radius of the city center and be able to recite a set litany of 320 routes or "runs" - in both directions. This feat of memory is so daunting that it is capitalized as "the Knowledge," and scientists have found that in order to accommodate such a vast mental map, the posterior hippocampus of a London cabbie's brain, the bit responsible...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Self Knowledge | 7/2/2006 | See Source »

...camera crews and reporters are often hemmed in by minders and shepherded past buildings that have been the site of Guantánamo's harsher realities--the force-fed hunger strikers, the suicide attempts. If Guantánamo is legal and effective, now is the time for the government to prove...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: How to Fix Guantanamo | 7/2/2006 | See Source »

...Adding PCCW to this expanding portfolio may prove trickier. The news that Macquarie was negotiating with PCCW chairman Richard Li, son of Hong Kong tycoon Li Ka-shing, for his telecom business (which includes a mobile-phone operation and a promising Internet-TV venture) immediately drew a rival bid from private-equity firm Texas Pacific Group and its Asian affiliate, Newbridge Capital Group. Not only does Macquarie have a rival suitor, but the Chinese government may also fatally complicate the deal. That's because China Network Communications Group, one of China's state-owned telephone companies, has a 20% stake...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Eyes on the Prize | 7/2/2006 | See Source »

...play’s radical combination of filmed segments, an engaging score, and flawless stage-managing prove director Nicholas Hytener’s holistic vision for the play was aesthetically worthy of Bennet’s dialogue...

Author: By Pierpaolo Barbieri, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: The Education of The Ruling Class | 6/30/2006 | See Source »

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