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...would prevent. It's already clear that the Merck vaccine would not be of much help to women who have previously been exposed to HPV. For any mass-inoculation program to be effective, it would have to target girls and possibly boys before they become sexually active. This could prove a tough sell for parents, not to mention conservative politicians and proponents of abstinence. And, of course, any vaccine that contains only HPV-16 and HPV-18 would not protect against other strains of the virus that can cause cancer. So even after a vaccine is commercially available, most women...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: How to Kill a Cancer | 12/2/2002 | See Source »

...There's no mist in the 1983 Twinkle Twinkle Little Star, a science-fiction satire that shows the locals, warts and all, as greedy or desperate folks. Lovely Tian-zhen (Cherie Chung) can marry her rich beau if she can prove she's a virgin. Just before the medical exam, she is abducted by aliens and impregnated. Alex Cheung's parody of Close Encounters of the Third Kind and Star Wars climaxes with a madcap battle between Darth Vader and a sleazy detective in drag. One lightsaber becomes a numchuk; another goes limp at a fatal moment ("Should...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Oh, Brothers! | 12/2/2002 | See Source »

...every one of the first ten chosen is choice. Significant stretches of The Warlord and Twinkle Twinkle Little Star prove that Hong Kong comedy is a taste that can sour over time. The Teahouse (1974), with martial arts whiz Chen Kuan-tai doing little kicking but lots of glowering as a feisty restaurateur, makes a provocative political statement?that the local judiciary coddles young criminals?in a dawdling, slapdash manner...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Oh, Brothers! | 12/2/2002 | See Source »

...estimates could prove useful despite the significant uncertainty, according to Cohen. Overall, the ranges suggest that a cell phone ban would be “a wash” in its economic costs and benefits...

Author: By Christina M. Anderson, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Study Weighs Costs of Cell Phone Use | 12/2/2002 | See Source »

...modernization" savings - reforms like joint control centers for police, fire and ambulance; fire trucks with both full-time and part-time employees; and more flexibility in shift work. But that would mean job losses, so the firefighters were furious, questioning whether Blair was trying to "pull a Maggie" - prove Thatcher-like toughness to win votes. Blair's goal isn't so much union-busting as long-term political survival. Last week the Chancellor of the Exchequer, Gordon Brown, announced that the government had to borrow $31 billion this year because the slowing economy is depleting tax receipts - the first...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Season Of The Strike | 12/1/2002 | See Source »

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