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With this year’s edition of The Game only two days away, I have my own team to root...

Author: By Kevin T. Chen, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: THE CHEN COMMANDMENTS: The Game Brings Out Football Fans | 11/19/2009 | See Source »

...techniques and getting partners involved in the solution. "That could be equally successful while at the same time not exposing women to the [potential] long-term adverse effects of drugs," says Norsigian, who suggests testing drugs like flibanserin against drug-free therapies. "Moreover, the non-medication approaches often address root causes for lack of libido and thus reflect a prevention approach that is usually much wiser...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Female Sexual Dysfunction: Myth or Malady? | 11/18/2009 | See Source »

...course, four-star generals don't get to the top without knowing how to look after themselves - and their charges. One of SBY's biggest priorities during his first term was overseeing a massive campaign to root out the Islamic militants who had conducted a series of deadly terror attacks since 2002. For four years, calm reigned in Indonesia. Yet just nine days after the President's re-election, fatal bombings at Jakarta hotels shattered any illusion that extremism had been eradicated. Raids on terror hideouts resulted in the killing of Noordin Top, the Malaysian militant who is believed...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Indonesia's President Promises Huge Annual Growth | 11/16/2009 | See Source »

...Some bloggers have wondered if it isn't simply in the French blood to root for an underdog taking on authority figures. Generations of French children have been enamored with traditional Guignol puppet shows, in which the protagonist, Guignol, fights with a rotten, bumbling policeman. The nation is also obsessed with the comic-book hero Asterix, a puny but cunning Gaul warrior who always gets the best of Julius Caesar's Roman armies despite being overmatched and outnumbered. (Read "Asterix at 50: A French Comic Hero Conquers the World...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: How a Bank Robber Became an Antihero in France | 11/16/2009 | See Source »

...additional $10 million to ensure good distribution around the country. The idea was first proposed in 2004 by a committee of the Institute of Medicine headed by Kenneth Arrow, a winner of the 1972 Nobel Prize in Economics. The idea is that if the market is relied on to root out fake pills and bad treatments, the real drugs will come to dominate the supply. Supporters say competition between private pharmacies would keep prices low and prevent middlemen from simply pocketing the subsidies and continuing to sell fakes. "No one will want to sell counterfeits when the real doses...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: In a Malaria Hot Spot, Resistance to a Key Drug | 11/14/2009 | See Source »

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