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...Qureshi was born on June 22, 1956 to a wealthy landholding family in Murree, a hilltop region often used as a summer resort. According to the BBC, his family claims to be of saintly lineage. Qureshi's father was also governor of the Punjab region in the mid-1980s. With regards to his background, Qureshi has said: "Lineage is still important, but it is no longer paramount. Now everybody has to win the vote...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Shah Mahmood Qureshi | 12/29/2008 | See Source »

...country home, her widower and political heir mounted a platform to deal with the implications of the other large movement of people. He warned against war and appealed for peace through dialogue. "War," President Asif Ali Zardari said in a live televised address, would prove disastrous for "the whole region." Dressed in a long black coat and gripping the podium firmly with both hands, an unsmiling Zardari pushed back against what has over recent weeks been seen in Pakistan as pressure from Washington and New Delhi. "I want to tell the oldest democracy and the largest democracies of this world...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Year After Bhutto: Tears and Troop Movements | 12/27/2008 | See Source »

...gradual decline in nerve function. In fact, experts believe that the condition actually begins with a loss of smell and a degeneration of nerves in the olfactory tract, then proceeds to the gut and brain stem. At some point along this march, the nerve damage hits the pons, a region in the brain that regulates sleep. "So in Parkinson's, there is a period that we don't know how long it lasts, in which the neurons are dying in the brain, just not in the motor areas," says Postuma. "And sleep is an area where this degeneration occurs, indicating...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Can a Sleep Disorder Predict Parkinson's? | 12/24/2008 | See Source »

...team had around 130 student volunteers watch the 2001 romantic comedy Serendipity, while another group of the same size watched a David Lynch drama. Viewers of the romantic comedy were found to be more likely to believe in fate and destiny. It was a small study confined to one region, but, Dr Holmes argues, "it does give us some indication of [the effects of romantic comedies...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Are Romantic Movies Bad For You? | 12/23/2008 | See Source »

...bulk of the vote in their respective constituencies. The politics of ethnocentrism props up the parties that really don't have anything else to offer the populace. The economy has been in deep trouble even before the international financial crisis. Unemployment and corruption are among highest in the region. Basic goods suffer from inflation. According to a recent study, about 70% of Bosnians below the age of 30 have abandoned hope for a better future at home, and would rather emigrate to the West...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Will Bosnia Test the Obama Administration? | 12/22/2008 | See Source »

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