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Your question points to a rampant problem in relationships: the inability to really communicate. Whether it’s a fledgling relationship that is primarily based on drunken hook-ups, a more long-term relationship that has lost its lust, or a marriage where the partners have failed to “reconnect” throughout changes over the years, this “emotional pathway” between two people is hard both to achieve and to maintain...
...rewarding to see indian tennis star Sania Mirza featured in TIME. She deserves recognition for being a rare achiever who shot up in the tennis rankings very quickly. More significantly, she is from a country where prejudice against girls is still rampant. Female fetuses continue to be aborted, creating a skewed ratio of boys to girls. Girls are considered a liability and discriminated against in many households. One hopes Mirza's success will help the girls of India live in an environment with more equality. Jagmohan Manchanda New Delhi...
...most graphically disgusting of the three. Mei (Bai Ling) smuggles aborted fetuses into Hong Kong to make age-defying culinary delicacies. Her customer is Mrs. Lee (Miriam Yeung), a retired actress who is desperate to regain her lost youth and stop her husband’s rampant cheating...
...Let’s begin with the most amusing offenses, those of poor diction, which run rampant throughout the punch book...
...plummeted even in regions where there is little or no fluoride in the water. A 2001 CDC study found that by the time they were 12, kids in fluoridated communities averaged only 1.4 fewer cavities than those in non-fluoridated areas. And even in fluoridated cities, severe decay remains rampant among the poor--partly because some 85% of dentists, according to state surveys, reject Medicaid patients. Still, for those with little dental care, water fluoridation makes a difference, contends Bellingham's Curtis Smith. "Twenty percent of our kids account for 80% of the cavities," he says. "With fluoride...