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Dates: during 2010-2019
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...Nature’s role is absolutely relevant,” he added. “Understanding how our body protects against disease and harnessing that protection to shore up the body’s natural defense mechanisms is the best way to protect against disease...

Author: By Juliana L. Stone, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Roundworm Bacteria Research Shows Promise for Development of New Antibiotics | 2/19/2010 | See Source »

Pinker said he still feels that as a psychologist, he has more to understand about the role of religion and morality in society...

Author: By Victoria L. Venegas, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Pinker and Goldstein Challenge Religion | 2/18/2010 | See Source »

...years. GOP leader Mitch McConnell led a filibuster of a deficit-reduction commission that he himself had demanded. The Obama White House spent months trying to lure the Finance Committee's ranking Republican, Chuck Grassley, into supporting a deal on health care reform and gave his staff a major role in crafting the bill. But GOP officials back home began threatening to run a primary challenger against the Iowa Senator. By late summer, Grassley wasn't just inching away from reform; he was implying that Obamacare would euthanize Grandma...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Why Washington Is Tied Up in Knots | 2/18/2010 | See Source »

...every time he fails, the pressure on our two-party system builds. When government acts to solve problems, even if the solutions aren't perfect, it breaks the vicious circle of political failure and mistrust. When it comes to health care, for example, virtually every expansion of government's role - Medicare, Medicaid, the veterans' health care system, the Children's Health Insurance Program, even George W. Bush's prescription-drug plan - has proved popular. But when problems fester year after year and public trust in government falls lower and lower, strange and convulsive things can happen. They happened when Perot...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Why Washington Is Tied Up in Knots | 2/18/2010 | See Source »

...dazzling concoctions but his ethos - to bring science, art and cooking into closer collaboration; to use food not only to please and satiate but also to amaze and provoke; and above all, to constantly reinvent. Fellow holder of three Michelin stars, chef Juan Mari Arzak defines Adrià's role simply: "He is the most important chef in the history of cuisine...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: What Will the World's Best Restaurant Become Next? | 2/18/2010 | See Source »

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